Ireland’s largest diocese is the latest to announce a new partnership model for its 197 parishes to realign “efforts and energies to suit the times”, Archbishop Dermot Farrell said. Parishes will now share resources and co-ordinate Mass schedules with designated partners, having been informed of the arrangements last week following months of consultation. Parish pastoral…
Fr Oliver O’Reilly has revealed that he received a phone call warning him of a threat he faced after he spoke out about the attack on former Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney. Fr O’Reilly condemned the kidnapping and torture of Mr Lunney in September 2019 and criticised those responsible for it in a homily…
Staff Reporter A Catholic basketball coach in the US has said the Holy Family is the only royal family he recognises during a recent press conference that has gone viral on social media. In Boston to attend the 2022 Earthshot Prize Awards, Prince and Princess of Wales William and Kate attended the Boston Celtics’ game…
The Ukrainian government said it would sanction members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church affiliated with the Moscow Patriarchate. After a December 1 meeting of the National Security and Defence Council, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the government also would review if the Church met the legal criteria for use of one of the main shrines…
Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Catholic woman who escaped death for alleged blasphemy and who now lives in Canada, has appealed for the protection of victims of blasphemy laws in her home country. She also said her family is struggling in Canada, because the government only supported them for one year, reported ucanews.com. In her first…
A “generous” donation of land by the Dominican Sisters, Cabra, will be developed by Focus Housing to deliver 95 public homes in the North Dublin community. The development wouldn’t have been possible without the “considerable” size of the order’s donation, over 7,300 meters squared of public space for community use just off Rathoat Road. The…
Staff Reporter A prominent Jesuit priest-artist who completed the iconic mosaics at Rome’s Irish College has had his ministry restricted, reportedly after an investigation by his religious order into allegations of abuse against religious sisters in Slovenia. The Jesuits said in a statement this week that the order has barred 68-year-old Fr Marko Ivan Rupnik,…
As California’s three-year window to file child sex abuse lawsuits past the statute of limitations nears its conclusion, 66 Catholic clergy and religious have been named in 116 lawsuits in Alameda County, which covers the area between San Francisco and San Jose. Additionally, 14 of the clergy members and religious identified in the lawsuits are…
German Synodal Way designed to create ‘pressure’ The German Synodal Way was designed from the outset to avoid legal sanctions while simultaneously creating “pressure” on the Church to change Catholic teaching, one of the founders of the process told German media Friday. Thomas Sternberg, former president of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), said…
There is “delight” after an agricultural project funded by the Irish Jesuits won the 2022 Climate Action Awards, run by Misean Cara. The Multi-educational and Agricultural Jesuit Institute of South Sudan (MAJIS) Rumbek, South Sudan took home the prize in the ‘project-based’ section. Its focus is on the empowerment of women farmers, transferring knowledge to…
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