The Department of Education in the North will invest £70 million in building a shared education campus in Ballycastle, Co. Antrim. The “state of the art” education facilities will be shared by Ballycastle High School and Cross and Passion College – a controlled or Protestant ethos school and a Catholic school. The scheme marks a…
Secrecy around major changes in the Vatican’s safeguarding body counterproductive, Marie Collins tells Ruadhán Jones Claims that the Vatican’s chief safeguarding body is experiencing “growing pains” as it develops a new methodology have been knocked down by a former member and survivor of clerical abuse. No one knows what the Commission for the Protection of…
The actions of Ireland’s 1916 revolutionaries were rooted in a “higher cause”, Bishop Niall Coll said during Mass for the Annual State Commemorative Ceremonies for the 1916 Easter Rising. Their cause required “the selfless sacrifice of their own lives in the cause of Irish freedom”, the bishop of Ossory said in Arbour Hill, Dublin, on…
Mary is the model for walking with Jesus, Archbishop of Dublin Dermot Farrell told the more than 2,000 people from his diocese who made the pilgrimage to Knock on April 29. Over 2,000 people from across the diocese attended the pilgrimage and travelled to the shrine on various forms of transport including 26 buses. Before…
Archbishop Ladislav Nemet of Belgrade, Serbia, told OSV News that “no child should be a victim of violence,” following a school shooting in that city that left eight children and one security guard dead, with six students and a teacher injured. On May 3, a 13-year-old male student at the Vladislav Ribnikar Elementary School opened…
An art exhibit at the European Union’s Parliament building in Brussels, Belgium, has prompted criticism from conservative politicians in Italy for its display of a blasphemous depiction of Jesus Christ and the apostles. The artwork, a series of photographs by lesbian Swedish photographer Elisabeth Ohlson, includes one of a man who is meant to represent…
Tánaiste welcomes international Catholic award winner Tánaiste Mícheál Martin welcomed the winner of the 2022 Spirit of Francis Award from Catholic Extension, Loretta Brennan Glucksman, to thank her for her commitment to peace in Ireland. The Irish-American philanthropist, together with her late husband Lew, has been involved in philanthropic initiatives for over two decades, focusing…
African women evangelised and educated by Irish missionaries can “change the tide” for faith in Ireland, says an Irish missionary who dedicated her life to educating women in Cameroon. Sr Mary Neville (89) of the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Rosary, who worked as a missionary in Nigeria and Cameroon for almost 50 years, said…
Overcrowding, the ongoing struggle to rehabilitate prisoners and abundant access to drugs are some of the key issues flagged by Bishop of Kilmore Martin Hayes following a recent visit to Mountjoy Prison in Dublin. Liaison with the country’s prison chaplains, Bishop Hayes travelled there to support to the work of the prison’s chaplains and expressed…
Christians in northeast Nigeria are living a “tortured” existence due to continued attacks my Islamist terrorists, an African priest based in Athlone has warned. Speaking to The Irish Catholic, Fr Innocent Sunu who is now a curate in Ss Peter and Paul church, told of the “dehumanisation” of Christians in his Diocese of Maiduguri, and…
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