Motorists should treat road safety as a Christian responsibility and “heed the blessings” offered before a journey, Archbishop Francis Duffy has said. Speaking at the Vigil Mass for Reek Sunday in St Mary’s Church, Westport, the Archbishop of Tuam said familiar phrases such as “safe journey” and “be careful on the road” carry both hope…
An Irish priest ministering at St Stephen’s Church in Boston has called on Irish to remember their history of emigration as hostility towards immigrants becomes more prevalent around the US and Ireland. Fr David Costello of Co. Limerick said he has observed anti-immigration hate in Boston amid Trump’s US immigration crackdown, and has observed from…
A further 22 coffined infants have been recovered during excavation works at the site of the former Mother and Baby Institution in Tuam, Co. Galway. The Office of the Director of Authorised Intervention, Tuam said the remains were recovered during the latest phase of forensic excavation, covering June 1 to July 15. The update also…
St Mary’s Parish, Belfast transformed the long vacant Berry Street building into a brand new church run coffee shop. Named the ‘Foggy Brew’ the shop will fund outreach initiatives locally and abroad through a church support partnership in Gaza and the West Bank. Among the arsenal of products being sold, one is Palestine Cola, which…
As some pilgrims commuted to Knock for the Annual Grandparents Pilgrimage, and others climbed Croagh Patrick on Reek Sunday, many travelled to Dublin to watch the GAA Football All-Ireland final in Croke Park, where Mayo was playing Kerry, and won the championship for the fourth time – the first in 75 years. Thousands of pilgrims…
A burial controversy involving a Dalit man in India’s southern Tamil Nadu state has brought the plight of the country’s Dalit population into sharp focus, with the local Catholic bishop involving civil authorities to resolve the dispute. Fr Devasagayaraj Zackarias, national secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India’s Office for Scheduled Castes and Backward…
A sedevacantist group of monks in Scotland hosted an illicit consecration of a “bishop” on July 25 in spite of repeated warnings that doing so would constitute a schismatic act and a break from the Catholic Church. The Transalpine Redemptorists, or the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer, livestreamed the counterfeit ceremony from their monastery…
Pope Leo XIV renewed his appeal for peace in the Middle East on July 26, after a week that saw deadly Israeli settler violence in the West Bank, Israeli military strikes in Gaza, and intensified US operations against Iran. The pope’s new appeal came in remarks following the Angelus prayer on Sunday at the papal…
A nun who was taken into immigration custody last month in Texas said on July 23 that she went into a cold sweat as two armed men approached her while she walked to Sunday Mass in her habit, thinking about the day’s Bible readings and carrying little more than her rosary and cellphone. “Honestly, in…
The Vatican will study the conditions needed for a possible trip by Pope Leo XIV to Ukraine, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher said following a six-day pastoral and diplomatic mission to the war-torn country. Gallagher, the Holy See’s secretary for relations with states and international organisations, said the possibility of a papal visit was among the…
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