Bishop Ray Browne of Kerry has announced clergy appointments for the diocese to take effect from July 15. The diocesan changes are as follows: Fr Padraig Walsh, Our Lady and St Brendan’s, Tralee, to be PP Castleisland. Fr Teddy Linehan (Hospital Chaplain) to be PP Our Lady and St Brendan’s, Tralee. Fr Kieran O’Brien Adm.…
Bishop of Achonry and Elphin Kevin Doran welcomed the news that RTÉ One will broadcast a feature documentary Heart of a Servant – Father Flanagan story on July 6, citing the documentary as an “excellent production focusing on a very important personality in our recent faith history.” Born in Bishop Doran’s own diocese, Boys Town…
The President of Dublin City University, Prof. Daire Keogh, was invested as a Knight of the Order of St Gregory the Great, an award bestowed by Pope Leo XIV, during the Annual Mass of the Association of Papal Orders in Ireland at Newman University Church, Dublin. Archbishop Dermot Farrell conferred the papal honour in the…
Bishop Ger Nash of Ferns has announced changes in the diocese, which take effect from September 1. The new appointments are as follows. Fr John Paul Sheridan, Co-PP, Annacurra, Kilaveney, Kilanerin, Carnew Pastoral Area, is appointed to a full-time post in St Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth. Fr Brian Whelan, Co-PP in Ferns, Bunclody Pastoral Area,…
A Pakistani trial court has acquitted a blind Christian man who spent 10 months in jail after being charged with blasphemy, an offense that carries a mandatory death sentence under the country’s laws. The director of the UK-based Minority Concern Pakistan, Aftab Alexander Mughal, told Crux Now the acquittal is an encouraging development but warned…
A pair of nearly 300-year-old Galway silver chalices made by Richard Joyce in 1730 and 1731, which had been in England for over a century, have returned to Galway. Marking their homecoming, Mass was celebrated in the Poor Clare Monastery Chapel on June 26, ahead of the chalices going on public display at Galway City…
Bishop Iyad Akram Twal, auxiliary bishop of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, said Christians face an increasingly precarious situation in the Middle East. War, economic instability, and continued emigration are placing increasing pressure on the Christian presence in the region, driving a significant decline in communities across the Holy Land and neighboring countries, Twal said…
St Michael’s Church, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, in the Diocese of Clogher closed out its 150th year anniversary with a live broadcasted Mass presented by RTÉ. The Mass was celebrated by Msgr Peter O’Reilly and featured music from the parish choir. He explained that although the anniversary technically ended in March, this Mass closed out the…
As the Trump administration moves to seize a diocesan pilgrimage site for the border wall, bishops from New Mexico and Texas called on the faithful to join them for a June 28 Mass on the mountain. In a June 23 message, Bishop Peter Baldacchino of Las Cruces, New Mexico, announced that he and Bishop Mark…
Msgr Peter O’Reilly and Dean Kenneth Hall have been named in the King’s Birthday Honours List and received an OBE award for reconciliation and peacebuilding in Enniskillen and Co. Fermanagh. Humbled by the honour, they emphasised the role that their communities played. “While our names appear in the citation, we see this recognition as belonging…
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