There will be challenging change ahead for Cork and Ross, Bishop Fintan Gavin has warned, as 14 priests are set to retire this summer. Of the 14, 12 are diocesan priests, while two are priests in religious orders who served in the diocese and won’t be replaced. Bishop Gavin said he is having to make…
U2 front man Bono has opened up about how, kneeling in prayer, he sought his father’s forgiveness for the way he treated him after Bono’s mother’s death. The Irish singer said in an interview with Desert Island discs that his prayer allowed him to dispel the guilt that had plagued him for years. “I apologised…
First married couple beatified together feature at World Meeting of Families Relics of the first married couple to be beatified together by the Catholic Church were venerated inside St Peter’s Basilica during the World Meeting of Families in Rome. Blessed Luigi and Maria Beltrame Quattrocchi were the official patrons of the 10th World Meeting of…
Responding to Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien’s comments about “underutilised” Church-owned land when it comes to housing, housing campaigner Fr Peter McVerry said that the State has more than enough land to build a lot of houses and “it seems to me there’s no urgency about doing that”. Speaking to The Irish Catholic newspaper, Fr…
The Papal Nuncio to Ireland visited Co. Down to participate in a new initiative for the renewal of faith through an all-island novena, following in the steps of St Patrick. Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okolo visited St Patrick’s Church in Saul on the feast of Candlemas as part of the novena and was welcomed by Fr…
Two Jesuit priests were murdered in a rugged region of Mexico rife with violence as they provided refuge to a person being pursued by a gunman, according to the Society of Jesus and state officials. Jesuit Frs Javier Campos Morales and Joaquín César Mora Salazar died defending their parish in the community of Cerocahui in…
Newcestown parish in Co. Cork marked the 150th anniversary of St John the Baptist Church and the 50th anniversary of Bishop Galvin Central School Friday, June 24. Bishop of Cork and Ross Fintan Gavin and Fr Bernard Cotter PP concelebrated Mass, before the bishop planted a tree on the school grounds to mark the special…
In a 6-3 decision last week the US Supreme Court overturned its nearly 50-year-old decision in Roe v Wade that legalised abortion in the US. The move has been widely welcomed by Irish pro-life activists. The court’s 213-page ruling in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organisation was not totally unexpected due to the leak of…
Keith Burnside, radio and broadcast journalist at Ulster TV and BBC TV Ulster, retired after 44 years. He elaborated on his faith in an interview on the BBC’s Sunday Sequence. “My faith is important to me. I’m a regular churchgoer. I respect faith. I believe, and I continue to believe and pray. “I wouldn’t be…
Chairman and former editor of the Irish News Jim Fitzpatrick has died. Mr Fitzpatrick, 92, had owned the newspaper since the early 1980s. Great privilege Taoiseach Micheál Martin led tributes, saying that he had the “great privilege” of knowing Mr Fitzpatrick for many years, and that he was “in every respect, a true gentleman”. “In…
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