Bible dating back to 1615 auctioned in Belfast A bible dating back to 1615 went under the hammer in east Belfast January 10. Part of a sale at Bloomfield Auctions from a private collection in a gentleman’s residence, the aged tome travelled from Devon with its former owner Elizabeth Pole to what is now Massachusetts,…
Four men were ordained to the diaconate across the island of Ireland last weekend, at a time of vocations crisis in Ireland. Two sets of ordinations took place on the feast of Epiphany, Friday January 6, in Derry and Sligo, and another on Sunday, January 8 in Belfast. Stephen Ward was ordained by Bishop of…
The pastor of Holy Cross parish in the Archdiocese of Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia, Fr Raúl Arrázola, denounced the violent intrusion of a group of policemen into his church on Sunday, January 1. In a statement to the Bolivian newspaper El Deber, Fr Arrázola said that a group of police officers “violated…
The former archbishop of Paris, Michel Aupetit, is reportedly under preliminary investigation for sexual assault on a vulnerable person, according to a report from the Archdiocese of Paris in late November 2022, French news channel BFMTV reported. According to the TV channel’s report, the allegations date back to 2011 and concern a vulnerable former parishioner,…
Pope Francis called on ambassadors to the Holy See to safeguard the rights of the unborn to “combat the throwaway culture”. The address to the diplomatic corp took place on Monday, January 9 and was attended by Ireland’s Ambassador to the Holy See, as well ambassadors across Europe and the US, where debates around abortion…
After more than two months in detention in Eritrea, Bishop Fikremariam Hagos Tsalim and Fr Mehereteab Stefanos have been released, several sources have reported. The 52-year-old bishop heads the Eritrean Catholic Eparchy of Segheneity. Fr Stefanos, before his imprisonment, was a parish priest at St Michael’s Parish in the same eparchy. It is still unknown…
A young man with Down Syndrome has delivered a letter to Professor Fergal Malone of the Rotunda hospital, encouraging them to “save babies with Down Syndrome”. Conor O’Dowd, 28, from Drogheda delivered the letter by hand with his father, former mayor of Drogheda and Aontú representative Michael O’Dowd, in response to Professor Malone’s comments that…
One of Dublin’s historic churches has put out a call to men and women whose weddings were celebrated there to send in photos from the ceremony. Hundreds of weddings have taken place in Newman University Church on St Stephen’s Green, Dublin, since it opened in 1856 as the chapel for the Catholic University of Ireland…
Former president Donald Trump took to social media to blame Republican losses in the November midterm elections on candidates who opposed abortion for any reason. His comments drew criticism from many pro-life advocates. On his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump posted: “It wasn’t my fault that the Republicans didn’t live up to expectations in…
Chai Brady in Rome There is “a great hunger” among Irish people to understand their faith and to “understand the debt of the Faith”, the Archbishop of Dublin told The Irish Catholic in Rome. Following his visit to St Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday to pay his respects to Pope Benedict XVI who was in repose…
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