Sports legends and Eurovision’s Dana will share their faith stories at Belfast’s 21st annual Rosary festival next month. The week-long festival will include famed GAA manager Mickey Harte and former professional footballer turned friar Fr Philip Mulryne – who played for Manchester United and Norwich. Running from October 5-13, it begins with a camino walk from St…
Young people from Armagh have joined Archbishop Eamon Martin, Anglican Archbishop John McDowell, and other pilgrims in the Walk for Peace, Healing, and Wellbeing as part of the Armagh leg of the Columbanus Walk. This pilgrimage, which started at Mount Leinster in Co. Carlow, will conclude in Bangor, Co. Down, on September 21, 2024, marking…
While many Catholic leaders in Nigeria are concerned about the influence of Pentecostalism, Catholics in the southeastern parts of the country are concerned about another trend. In rural parts of the West African country, the number of young people participating in Sunday Mass has plummeted and continues to fall as many of them turn to…
Speaking in advance of the Catholic Medical Association of Ireland’s 7th annual conference this Saturday, President of the association, Dr Keith Holmes, has described the current treatment of Catholic healthcare professionals who are forced to deal with a radically different end-of-life culture, as a “shocking affront” to the principle of conscientious objection and has caused…
Pope Francis has united two Welsh dioceses to create the new Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cardiff-Menevia, the Vatican announced September 12, the feast of the Holy Name of Mary. Archbishop Mark O’Toole, who will lead the newly formed archdiocese, emphasised the significance of this date in a pastoral letter on the unification. “We are immensely grateful to Pope…
A self-professed Catholic bishop and primate, who was ordained to the priesthood by the excommunicated Zambian Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo in 2009, and who’s built a following in part on the basis of performing exorcisms, has been denounced by both the dioceses of Fatima and Rome as a fraud. Self-professed Bishop Salvatore Micalef, born in a…
A new poll by Pew Research Centre shows a slim majority of US Catholics intending to cast their ballot for former president Donald Trump in November, with Trump and Democratic candidate Vice President Kamala Harris in a dead heat among the entire electorate as the election contest enters its final weeks. The poll, released last week, found…
The Government’s SPHE (Social, Personal and Health Education) curriculum has been criticised for its extreme ideological stances and ignoring traditional values such as love, marriage and commitment and the understanding of male and female. Carol Nolan TD of Laois-Offaly, and a former school teacher, told The Irish Catholic that issues with the National Council for…
Chai Brady and Brandon Scott The Government’s statutory inquiry into abuse must include all schools or “rapidly lose credibility” the Head of the Journalism in Griffith College Dublin has warned. Following the publication of a scoping inquiry into religious run Catholic schools last week Dr Niall Meehan told The Irish Catholic that the Commission of…
The “distressing, harrowing and devastating” abuse revealed in religious-run schools has put faith to “the test yet again”, the Bishop of Limerick Brendan Leahy said, while AMRI, the representative body of the Leadership of Missionaries and Religious in Ireland expressed its deep remorse and commended the bravery of the victims and survivors in response to…
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