Kylemore Abbey marked a decade of partnership with the University of Notre Dame on July 30, celebrating the vibrancy and connectivity of the university’s global campus at Kylemore Castle. These ten years mark the first third of the 30-year agreement which established Notre Dame’s Kylemore campus in the St Joseph’s Wing of the castle. The…
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on July 29 that debate around the introduction of assisted suicide should be put on hold until palliative and social care programs in the country are properly funded. “I take the view that that debate – and I don’t say that there shouldn’t be a debate at some point…
The Diocese of Cádiz and Ceuta offered emergency resources to civil authorities July 31 as more than 60,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, straining local infrastructure. In a statement published July 30, the diocese said it was deeply concerned “over the severity of events and the particular vulnerability of so…
A Catholic-supported hospital in Gaza City sustained damage after an Israeli airstrike hit a nearby residential apartment late July 29, according to the Catholic Near East Welfare Association’s Pontifical Mission in Lebanon and Syria. The blast shattered windows and doors at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital and damaged an elevator serving its diagnostic center, though the hospital…
Major reorganisation will see 56 parishes move into 11 pastoral areas Parish identity must not be lost as dioceses reorganise into larger pastoral areas, the diocesan director of parish development in Kildare and Leighlin has said in reassurance to worried parishioners. Speaking to The Irish Catholic, Deacon Roche, diocesan director of parish development in Kildare…
A question asking, “is your current gender different from that assigned to you at birth?” on forms for blood donors could risk turning potential donors away because they fundamentally disagree with the question, said Michael Aherne on the Grásta Podcast with Bishop Phonsie Cullinan. In a July 25 episode of the podcast, presented by the…
In Archbishop Eamon Martin’s homily at Mass for the 2026 Grandparents’ pilgrimage to Knock, he addressed the ‘Granennials’ which is “a made-up word to describe the modern, 21st century, grandparent who is all up to date with the new technologies, dance moves and trendy phrases.” “Clearly grand-parenting today is very different to when I was growing…
When the final whistle blew for the All-Ireland final on Sunday, Canon Stephen Farragher “couldn’t stop crying” for over an hour after the game finished. At Monday morning Mass this week Fr Farragher said that “today is different”. Normally for the Parish of St Patrick’s in Ballyhaunis it’s a Novena Mass to Our Lady for…
Aontú TD Peadar Tóibín has expressed serious concern following confirmation that Tusla is unable to provide comprehensive historical data on children who have gone missing from State care. The Deputy requested information from Tusla on the number of children who have gone missing from care over the past ten years, how long they remained missing,…
Mayo’s historic All-Ireland triumph showed how people still instinctively turn to God when something deeply important is at stake, according to the rector of Knock Shrine. Fr Richard Gibbons was responding to GAA president Jarlath Burns’s declaration during the trophy presentation: “For 75 years you have prayed to Our Lady of Knock, and today Our…