Thousands of people from around Ireland flocked to Dublin city centre on Saturday to urge both the Government and the Irish public to “rethink abortion”. The crowd assembled at Parnell square before marching down O’Connell Street and onto Custom House Quay. Speaking in St Saviour’s Church and Dominican priory ahead of the march, Archbishop of…
Since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision June 24, attacks on Catholic churches and pro-life pregnancy centres have been reported in West Virginia, Washington, Virginia, Louisiana, Colorado, California, Texas, Florida, New York, and Indiana. Below are the latest recorded attacks since the decision. St Patrick Catholic Church in Philadelphia was defaced with pro-abortion…
More than 100 people, including Church and State dignitaries, attended a farewell gathering for Papal Nuncio to Ireland Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okolo, June 29. Archbishop Okolo, who spent some six years as nuncio to Ireland having arrived in 2017, is leaving soon to take up a new posting in Czechia. The Primate of All-Ireland Archbishop…
Catholic bishops in the Central African Republic have warned that disrupted food and fuel supplies during the war in Ukraine are undermining the quest for peace and stability. They said the Central African Republic was not becoming economically self-sufficient and, “like the other countries, it is undergoing convulsions from the Ukrainian crisis. Marked by our…
Pope pens new liturgy letter Pope Francis published a letter on the liturgy June 29, nearly one year after he issued the motu proprio Traditionis custodes, restricting the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass. In the 15-page apostolic letter, Desiderio Desideravi, the Pope said he wanted “to invite the whole Church to rediscover, to safeguard, and to…
Major climate award for Shankill parish An initiative of Shankill Parish in Co. Dublin has won a prestigious European Churches environmental award for its work tackling climate change. At the recent virtual meeting of the European Christian Environmental Network (ECEN), Shankill Action for a Green Earth (SAGE) was the joint winner of the Roman Juriga…
Parishes in Ireland’s largest diocese are being asked to recommend what nearby parishes they could partner with, as Dublin diocese plans for renewal of faith communities. The almost 200 parishes across the diocese have been gathering the past two months to discuss how the diocese’s resources can be best used, as the Church tackles the…
Well-known priest Msgr Raymond Murray has celebrated sixty years of ministering in the Archdiocese of Armagh. It was while chaplain to prisoners in Armagh that the then Fr Murray first began speaking up about the conditions. He also gave evidence in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in the case the Irish Government brought…
A pro-life group has said the number of abortions for babies with Down Syndrome has tripled for women travelling from Ireland since 2018, and that pro-choice groups are misrepresenting figures. Spokeswoman for the Life Institute Megan Ní Scealláin said that abortion campaigners, including the National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI), were misrepresenting figures regarding women…
The US Supreme Court expanded the religious rights of government employees Monday as it ruled in favour of a Christian former high school football coach in Washington who sued after being suspended from his job for refusing to stop praying on the field after games. The Supreme Court justices in a 6-3 decision sided with…
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