Hundreds of pro-life advocates gathered at the Gresham Hotel, Dublin, for the Pro Life Campaign National Conference 2026 on Saturday, October 17. The event offered a space for discussions, workshops and talks. Addressing the present, Pro Life Campaign’s Eilís Mulroy said the Oireachtas Health Committee, “tasked with scrutinising Sinn Féin’s bill to abolish the three-day…
A new training course on synodality will open on October 26, organised by the Evangelii Gaudium Centre of the Sophia University Institute, in collaboration with the General Secretariat of the Synod. The 2026-2027 course will begin with a free online webinar entitled ‘Toward a New Humanism: A Synodal Way of Life’. The webinar is open…
Deacon Fergal O’Neill The Church of Our Lady and St Joseph in Caragh, Co. Kildare, will host a special celebration at 6.30pm on Thursday, November 19 2026, for the enshrinement of the first-class relics of St Carlo Acutis. The chief celebrant will be Bishop Denis Nulty, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin. The occasion follows a…
Irish Archbishop Paul Tighe has warned against treating artificial intelligence as inevitable, saying people must be actively involved in shaping how the technology develops. Speaking at a European discussion on Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas, Archbishop Tighe, Secretary of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, said “there is nothing inevitable about AI”. He said the…
Assembly decisions should not be presented as ‘authentic voice’ of Irish Catholics The Synodal Pathway is “offering the Church here little more than a political-type programme”, a senior priest has warned on the eve of its National Assembly in Gormanston. Fr Andrew McMahon, a Dromore priest, writer and commentator, said the proposals going before…
“There is no single stereotype of an ideal family or indeed ideal couple,” said Bishop Denis Nulty in his homily delivered to new Accord marriage facilitators and marriage counsellors on October 10. “You will work with couples and indeed families. There is no single stereotype of an ideal family or indeed ideal couple – no…
Mission Sunday is an opportunity to “show the amazing amount of impact and work that our congregations continue to undertake in exceptionally increasingly difficult circumstances,” said Misean Cara CEO John Moffett to The Irish Catholic, speaking on behalf of the non-profit, which works with 77 member organisations across Africa, Asia and Latin America. The goal…
Archbishop of Perth speaks to The Irish Catholic as Pope Leo calls for families to be put back at the centre Preparation for marriage must begin in the family home and not in the weeks before a wedding, the president of the Australian bishops has told The Irish Catholic, as Church leaders from around…
Canon Francis Brown Our recent nine-day Novena in honour of St Carlo Acutis at Newry Cathedral was a wonderful celebration of faith, bringing together people of all ages for prayer, reflection and spiritual renewal. Throughout the Novena, we were privileged to welcome inspirational speakers whose personal testimonies reminded us that faith can transform lives and…
“If we’re not there, they can’t meet us,” the new Coordinator of Vocations Ireland has said, calling for religious to find new ways of making their lives visible. Sr Karen Kent OSU, who has more than 25 years’ experience in vocation ministry, said the large numbers entering religious life in previous generations are no longer…