Speculation has been stirred about pop-superstar Taylor Swift’s Catholic future after she was pictured celebrating at the recent Super Bowl with two celebrity Catholics.
Taylor Swift’s traditional Catholic Super Bowl
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‘Very difficult’ for assisted dying committee to compile report
Ruadhán Jones
It will be “very, very difficult” for the assisted dying committee to reach a unanimous position, the chair of the committee TD Michael Healy-Rae has said.
Bishop Cullinan extends support to community after tragic death of young boy
Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore extended his support to the local community of Dunmore East in Co. Waterford after the tragic death of 6 year-old Matthew Purcell-Healy, whose body was found in a car in the early hours of last Thursday. Gardaí are currently probing if the schoolboy died by suffocation.
Dominicans celebrate 800 years of prayerful presence in Ireland
The Master of the Dominican Order was in Dublin on Sunday to help commemorate the eighth centenary of the arrival of the Dominican Order in Ireland.
Pope Francis canonises Argentina’s first female saint, ‘Mama Antula’
Pope Francis canonised Argentina’s first female saint, María Antonia of St Joseph — known affectionately in the Pope’s home country as ‘Mama Antula’ — in a Mass in St Peter’s Basilica on Sunday. Argentina’s President Javier Milei sat in the front row to the Pope’s right during the canonisation on February 11 and embraced the…
Strasbourg on religious freedom: ban on shechita is legal
Strasbourg (KNA) According to a landmark ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), states may prohibit Jewish and Islamic religious communities from slaughtering animals by bleeding them without anaesthesia. In their decision published on Tuesday, the Strasbourg judges rejected the class action brought by Jews and Muslims from Belgium. They had opposed the…
Milei travels to the first canonisation of an Argentinian woman
By Severina Bartonitschek (KNA) Argentinian summit meeting in the Vatican: one inspired people for the Christian faith over 200 years ago, the other has also been working towards this goal globally for eleven years, the third recently won an election with completely different convictions. 11 February could be an interesting date for the Pope’s home…
Govt snub for women religious on St Brigid’s day ‘very sad’
Ruadhán Jones and Chai Brady The Government has been accused of “omitting” the “gigantic” contribution of women religious from its official programme for St Brigid’s day, with just one event in Irish embassies across the world acknowledging their work. Women religious and missionaries told The Irish Catholic that the State’s “blindness” towards the work of…
John Bruton a ‘committed Christian’
Former Taoiseach John Bruton, who died on Tuesday aged 76 after a long illness, has been remembered for his “profound Christian faith” and “compassionate” leadership. A man of “deep conviction and profound Christian faith, John realised from an early age that the future of Ireland and the future of Europe were inseparable,” Archbishop of Dublin…
Staff deeply frustrated after Catholic college suspends historic dialogue
Staff at Mary Immaculate College (MIC) are “deeply frustrated” after President Eugene Wall announced the suspension of a historic dialogue meant to safeguard the college’s future. Prof. Wall’s announcement came after he and University of Limerick (UL) President Kerstin Mey failed to find “a meeting of minds” with Department of Higher Education officials on January…