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…
Freedom of conscience protections need to be strengthened, not further eroded, an Irish doctor has claimed, after a review into Ireland’s abortion law attacked conscientious objection. “Freedom of conscience is the defining civil rights issue of our day,” Dr Kirsten Fuller, a GP based in Tipperary, told the March for Life on May 1. Her…
Clare TD Michael McNamara has said that he sees how Ireland’s proposed hate speech laws “could be open to abuse”. The controversial new laws are currently making their way through the Dáil, and would make it an offence for a person to “prepare or possess” material on their computer that could incite hatred against a…
Pope Francis encouraged Derry Catholics to be peacemakers for the sake of the North’s present and future, as the diocese celebrates the 150th anniversary of St Eugene’s Cathedral. The Pope said its his hope that the diocesan family will be “ever radiant with the beatitudes”, in a message read out by Ireland’s new papal nuncio…
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