“More things are wrought by prayer than this world realises,” said Fr Richard Gibbons, rector at Knock Shrine, speaking with this paper preceding the annual Novena at Knock Shrine, that began on August 14. The event is expected to draw over 130,000 faithful, as it has done for the last 47 years. However, as the…
Sr Briege McKenna, Catholic nun, mystic and author of Miracles Do Happen, during her current visit to Ireland shared a vision of a crisis within the Church – one she believes has already begun. Sr Briege described an image she received: “I saw this image of a vast desert and people were crying… And He…
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva cut the diplomatic ties between the two countries with the mutual expulsion of their ambassadors to Managua and Brasilia, carried out over the past week. Long-time allies who take part in international left-wing organisations like the São Paulo Forum – that gather…
David Solomon, a longtime professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and founder of what is now the de Nicola Centre for Ethics and Culture, recently entered the Catholic Church, according to a former student writing for Word on Fire. Solomon, who arrived at the university in 1968, came into the Catholic Church earlier…
The Bishop of Clogher Larry Duffy has paid tribute to the late Canon Joe Mullin, who died on August 8 aged 81. Canon Mullin, former PP of Lisnaskea-Maguiresbridge (Aghalurcher Parish) and from Fintona, Co. Tyrone, was also director of the Clogher Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes for many years. Bishop Duffy said the canon “reached out…
The row over the sale of a very valuable site in south Dublin to a local GAA club has escalated with the local church publicly accusing a local rugby club of deliberately undermining the sale. Foxrock Parish, which manages the site – conservatively valued at €10 million – on behalf of a diocesan trust recently…
Poland’s most popular shrine could receive a record number of pilgrims in 2024, according to local media. The shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa, at Jasna Góra Monastery in southern Poland, received as many as 4.5 million pilgrims a year before the COVID pandemic, when annual visitors dropped below 1 million. But pilgrim numbers have bounced back since…
The continuous push to remove faith formation from post-primary schools in Ireland must be resisted so young people are not “neglected” and receive no pastoral care, a priest involved in education for 20 years has said. Speaking to The Irish Catholic Fr Patrick Moore PP of Castlepollard in Co. Westmeath and Vicar Forane said it…
Catholic pro-life doctor Dermot Kearney is celebrating after a young mother gave birth to a healthy baby boy following abortion pill reversal treatment. When the policy of allowing home abortions by taking pills was introduced in March 2020, many women expressed regret after taking the first of two pills, mifepristone, and searched for a reversal…
A Catholic priest has said that “violence is never the answer” after further scenes of unrest and anti-immigration protests took place across the UK. The violent scenes in several towns and cities, including Middlesbrough, Rotherham, Bolton, Belfast, Liverpool and Southport, were sparked by the killing of three young girls in Southport at a Taylor Swift-themed…
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