Native American tribal representatives are partnering with Catholic dioceses and religious congregations in uncovering vast amounts of information about the Church’s role in operating residential schools that for more than a century worked to assimilate Indigenous children into white society. Known as the Catholic Native Boarding School Accountability and Healing Project, or AHP, the effort…
A former Anglican bishop of Rochester who converted to Catholicism late last year has warned against the danger of viewing the synod as a “democratic process”. Speaking to The Irish Catholic newspaper, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali said that the Anglican communion has sometimes been “misled” by this kind of thinking and that while consulting laity and…
Some US bishops spoke out against the easy accessibility to guns in the country following a May 24 rampage that left at least 19 children and two of their elementary school teachers dead in Uvalde, Texas. “Don’t tell me that guns aren’t the problem, people are. I’m sick of hearing it,” Bishop Daniel Flores of…
There will be a difficult period of transition ahead for the Church in Ireland, as numbers of clergy decline, Bishop Michael Router warned recently. However, this provides “a wonderful opportunity for all the Faithful to realise that they have a crucial role to play”, the auxiliary bishop of Armagh said May 27. Bishop Router was…
Bishops start fund to help displaced in Burkina Faso Tens of thousands of residents who have been displaced due to the ongoing conflict in Burkina Faso, prompting Church leaders to mobilise funds and aid to assist those facing difficulties due to the conflict. According to the International Crisis Group, the landlocked West African country with…
A Dublin school is determined to “continue to be a Catholic primary school in a diverse and multicultural community” as it became part of the Le Chéile Schools Trust, according to the Principal Anne Kernan. Our Lady’s Grove Primary School in Friarland is preparing for a new beginning after they joined the network of 65…
As a “first choice”, members of the Italian bishops’ conference decided to focus their study of clerical sexual abuse in the country on cases reported to the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 2000 to 2021. Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna, the new president of the conference, told reporters May 27 that…
Saturday May 21 saw the annual National ‘Faith and Light’ Pilgrimage to Knock shrine. Fourteen communities from all over Ireland travelled by bus and car, which after two years of virtual pilgrimages provided an added element of rejoicing. Founded by a French couple who had two sons with intellectual disabilities, Faith and Light came out…
Marches to raise awareness about “Ireland’s spiralling abortion rate” took place across the country, May 20-22. The Marches for Life, organised by the Pro-Life Campaign, attracted hundreds of pro-lifers in Galway, Cork and Donegal. Speakers at the events warned that pressures are being placed on doctors and nurses to assist in abortions, forcing them to…
After the Catholic Church’s persistent call for humanitarian assistance in Tigray, the arrival of hundreds of aid trucks in the northern Ethiopia region is a sign of hope for millions of people driven to the brink of famine by war, said a Church source. Since the start of the war in November 2020, the Church…
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