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…
Staff and patients are upset at the removal of all Catholic imagery from St Vincent’s University Hospital, after the hospital’s controversial transfer from the Religious Sisters of Charity (RSC). All crucifixes and holy images – including of the hospital’s founder Mother Mary Aikenhead – were removed from public display this year in the hospital, while…
A Dublin-based priest has commended the Church’s work with asylum seekers while condemning the attempted conflation of the Church with the anti-immigration proponents by Social Democrats Dublin Central TD Gary Gannon. Taking to Twitter on Monday, Mr Gannon shared an Irish Times article titled, ‘Why are Ireland’s Church leaders so silent on immigration?’ while commenting…
Staff morale at Mary Immaculate College has been “damaged” by the lack of transparency around the failure to appoint a new Head of Theology, a senior lecturer has said. Despite two rounds of interviews since September 2022, MIC has failed to find a new head for its theology department, meaning the department has been without…
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