Irish runner Rhasidat Adeleke said she is “grateful to God” after winning gold with a record run in the NCAA Championships in Texas. The 20-year-old became the first Irish sprinter to win a NCAA title after she registered a meet-record time of 49.20, breaking her own Irish 400m record in the process. “Grateful to God…
The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) has announced it has hired a law firm and a specialised association to clarify the alleged cases of abuse that occurred in its schools in Catalonia, Spain, and to accompany the complainants. The Jesuit delegate in Catalonia, Enric Puiggròs, has announced that the congregation has taken action in relation to…
Thousands of the Faithful, including many young people and families, descended on St Patrick’s Cathedral in Armagh to visit the relic of Blessed Carlos Acutis, who died of leukemia when he was 15 in 2006. Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh archdiocese welcomed the relic to the cathedral on Sunday morning, where it stayed until Tuesday.…
The destruction of a dam and hydroelectric power plant in a Russian-occupied area of Ukraine marks a “dastardly and diabolical act” that “defies imagination,” Archbishop Borys Gudziak, metropolitan of Ukrainian Catholics in the US, told OSV News. On June 6, damage to the Russian-occupied Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant, located in Ukraine’s Kherson region, released some…
A major conference aimed at supporting the development of healthcare chaplaincy in Ireland is due to take place in Dublin later this month. Stewarding the Mysteries: perspectives on healthcare chaplaincy, will be held in Croke Park on Thursday, June 29 and is a free event open to all, sponsored by Bon Secours Health System. Organisers…
A Catholic parish priest accused of “offending state authorities” in Belarus said he understood the hardships facing prisoners of conscience after just four days in jail. “I wouldn’t wish this on anyone – not a single hour in such a place,” said Fr Andrej Kulik, rector of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary parish…
Archbishop of Dublin Dermot Farrell will launch the new website of the Tarsus Scripture School Friday June 16 after those behind it identified that people are “hungry” for better catechesis. Speaking to The Irish Catholic newspaper, one of the founders, Sean Goan, said that those who’ve availed of the scriptural school so far haven’t “been…
Nicaraguan dictatorship withholds over $500,000 donated to Church A recent investigation by the Nicaraguan newspaper El Confidencial revealed that the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega has withheld more than half a million dollars that was donated to the Church in Estelí by the US bishops’ humanitarian aid agency Catholic Relief Services (CRS). The independent media reported…
Almost half the parishes in Killaloe diocese are ministered to by a priest over the retirement age of 75. Some 27 of the 58 parishes in the diocese have no resident priest under 75, Bishop Fintan Monahan said as he announced the diocesan appointments. Meetings were held across Killaloe diocese earlier this year, with radical…
Pope Francis making normal progress in recovery from abdominal surgery Pope Francis is “steadily improving” two days after he underwent abdominal surgery to correct an incisional hernia, a Vatican spokesman said Friday. According to Matteo Bruni, the Pope rested during the night and on the morning of June 9 was able to eat breakfast and…
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