The Irish Catholic has organised a second talk on the spiritual writer Thomas Merton

Movie star Gerard Butler recently visited one of the world’s poorest countries to see the work of international charity Mary’s Meals, which feeds over 100,000 children every school day in Liberia. “Every meal given to these children is a piece of charity and a little piece of love, and goes into the hearts of the…

Star often attends two Sunday Masses

Senator David Norris hopes to bring an all-party motion to the Seanad for a debate on the issue.

Prelates will travel to Gaza and Bethlehem

Dioceses report ‘terrific crowds’

Parishes report increases across country

Al Qaeda militants are being blamed for the deadly Christmas bombings in Iraq which claimed at least 37 lives. The Christian community in Baghdad was targeted on Christmas Day in three near-simultaneous bombings at St John’s Catholic church, where 26 died, and at a marketplace in the nearby Assyrian Christian district. The car bomb at…

A priest who found himself at the heart of a major child abuse probe in America has had his child endangerment conviction overturned on appeal. Monsignor William Lynn, 62, a former secretary for clergy in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, was convicted in June 2012 for his role in reassigning an abusive priest, Fr Edward Avery,…

Religious leaders in the Central African Republic (CAR) are working to thwart attempts by some to use violence as a spark for further violence there, the United Nations has reported. Following an intervention in December by French troops and UN peacekeepers to counter the violent rule of Seleka rebels in the CAR, UN monitoring teams…