The Church in Ireland can learn from the painful experiences of other Christian traditions when it comes to synodality, the Irish monk heading up Vatican relations with Protestant denominations has told The Irish Catholic. Fr Martin Browne OSB was recently appointed to the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity with responsibility for the Church’s relationship with…
After two years of Covid-19 restrictions the Divine Mercy Conference will return in person again from February 17-19. It will take place in the Main Hall of the RDS as it did in previous years, with this year’s theme being ‘Act justly, Love tenderly, Walk humbly with your God’ – Micah 6:8. Explaining the theme,…
An Taoiseach has warned that an attack on a church is an attack on all Ireland and those who carry them out must be held to account. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s comments come after the altar of a church in Kerry was burned and a Mass in Cork City was violently disrupted last week. In a…
Parishioners in Newry have received a “blow” following the destruction of six stained-glass windows at the Church of the Sacred Heart just outside Newry in Co. Armagh. The Church of the Sacred Heart on Dublin Road in Cloughoge was vandalised overnight between Thursday and Friday, with six windows on the church building smashed and a…
On the five-year anniversary of the late Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan, her family said that she was really excited to return to her native Co. Limerick and be close to the Benedictine monastery Glenstal Abbey. In a statement on January 14, the family said: “She loved to take long walks in the abbey’s surrounding parklands…
Dozens of abductees are still being held in captivity following the Christmas Day attack on Angwan Aku Village in Kaduna, a state located in the north of Nigeria, a Catholic priest in the West African country has told ACI Africa in an interview. On Christmas Day 2022, militant Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists attacked Angwan Aku village,…
The “prophetic” words of the late Pope Benedict XVI and the lives of Ss Ita and Brigid 1,500 years ago are examples for the Church in Ireland, which will become smaller, according to Bishop Brendan Leahy. The bishop was speaking on the Feast Day of St Ita on January 15 at Mass in Raheenagh church,…
Corr Na Madadh National School in Athlone will become the first school to transfer from Catholic patronage as part of a new pilot scheme. Minister for Education Norma Foley announced January 12 that the Co. Westmeath school will transfer from Catholic patronage to the local education and training board (ETB) and become a multi-denominational community…
A Catholic priest burned to death on Sunday after bandits set fire to his parish rectory in northern Nigeria. The body of Fr Isaac Achi was found among the charred parish building of Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church on January 15, according to the Catholic Diocese of Minna, Nigeria. He died after armed bandits…
Hospital staff under “huge pressure” are in “crisis management”, the Director of Pastoral Care at Tallaght University Hospital Fr John Kelly has said. This comes as the HSE revealed that attendances at emergency departments across the country have been higher this year than ever before. “Staff are very much under pressure, I mean, it’s the…
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