Andy Drozdziak (CNA) The bishops of England and Wales continue to urge Catholics to “raise their voices” in opposition to an assisted suicide bill, the text of which was published earlier last week. Late on November 11, English Labour Member of Parliament Kim Leadbeater published her Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill before Parliament members vote…
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen several Catholics to serve in his cabinet and other parts of his administration, including environmental lawyer Robert F Kennedy Jr, three-term Senator Marco Rubio, and Representative Elise Stefanik. The 45th and soon-to-be 47th president made more than a dozen announcements within 10 days of his electoral victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. Many…
The dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, is preventing priests from entering hospitals in Nicaragua to administer the sacrament of anointing the sick to those who need it, according to lawyer Martha Patricia Molina, author of the report “Nicaragua: A Persecuted Church?” while reports emerged over last weekend that…
US bishops: Synodality requires conversion of heart more than new structures Jonathan Liedl Promoting synodality in the United States depends more on a conversion of heart than on the creation of new structures, the US bishops emphasised at their fall assembly in Baltimore. “It’s about cultural change, not necessarily structural change or not necessarily…
The Labour Party’s proposal to move religious instruction outside of daily teaching hours in schools in the party’s recent election manifesto has prompted a senior figure in Catholic education to question what sort of alternative to religious instruction they would introduce and this is something that they haven’t addressed yet according to the CEO of…
A TD has described moves by political parties to abolish the mandatory three-day waiting period to access abortion medication and to extend the 12-week limit to allow for abortion on request as “monstrous” and “barbaric” and asked “is 40,000 abortions since 2019 not enough?”. Responding to the Labour Party and People Before Profit’s proposals to…
If the Church was making saints on spiritual miracles, Matt Talbot would have been a saint long ago,” told Bro Michael Murphy, a St Columbanus Knight and key figure in Matt Talbot’s commemoration, to The Irish Catholic. Recently, Matt Talbot’s Centenary Year launch was held at Ely House, Co. Dublin. From November 2024 to June…
Ahead of the launch of the book ‘The Rock from Which You Were Hewn: The Lives and Legacy of Holy Irish Men and Women’, co-author Fr John Hogan OCDS, said his hope is that the publication “inspires” and “renews” Catholics in the country by exploring the rich legacy of holy Irish men and women over…
Produced by Scratch Films, The Last Nuns in Ireland has won a Radharc Trust Award in the category Broadcast Documentary. In this film directed by Judy Kelly, writer and broadcaster Dearbhail McDonald explores the role of religious sisters in Ireland as the average age of nuns is over 80. The film is the second of…
Acclaimed actress Nicole Kidman recently revealed her struggle with the fear of mortality, sharing that it sometimes leads her to wake up crying and gasping in the middle of the night. Bro. Laurence Kettle OFM, talking to The Irish Catholic, acknowledges that fear and anxiety over death are natural, saying, “It’s OK to be afraid…
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