A Catholic leader June 9 criticised the European Parliament for voting in favour of a motion denouncing the leaked US Supreme Court draft opinion on abortion. Fr Manuel Barrios Prieto, the secretary general of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE), told Vatican News that the vote showed “a certain tendency in the…
Police arrested a suspect in connection with recent bombings in northeast India, including one at a Catholic school. Thounaojam Rishi Luwangcha, 46, was taken into custody June 7. Officials also confiscated a cache of explosives, detonators and wires similar to the ones used in the explosions, Ksh Shivakanta Singh, superintendent of police in Imphal West,…
Ruadhán Jones in Strasbourg The work of peacemaker and politician John Hume was “fuelled by his Christian faith”, said Lord Chris Patten in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, June 7. Lord Patten’s comments came as a bust of Mr Hume was erected in his honour by An Taoiseach Micheál Martin and EP President Roberta Metsola.…
Cardinal injured in 2021 earthquake hospitalised after Haiti accident Cardinal Chibly Langlois was injured in a traffic accident in Haiti on June 8, according to local media reports. The 63-year-old bishop of Les Cayes was reportedly not in critical condition but was taken to the hospital on June 8 for a possible broken arm after the incident…
St Vincent de Paul North Region paid special recognition to volunteers celebrating milestones in their service to the Society this year, with a combined service of 450 years volunteering with SVP. Representatives from across St Vincent de Paul North Region joined Fr Perry Gildea, SVP National President Rose McGowan, and Regional President for the North…
A Nigerian government official said June 9 that the insurgent group Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) is suspected as the perpetrator of a massacre at a Catholic church last week that left dozens dead. “We have been able to see the footprint of ISWAP in the horrendous attack in Owo and we are after…
Transition year students at St Mary’s Baldoyle, Dublin, finished off their year in style with a musical performance and graduation night. St Mary’s Baldoyle deputy principal John Moore said that the show, which took five days to produce, was “just brilliant. “Well done to the Transition Years on an amazing performance which, under the guidance…
Bishops in South Korea have moved ahead to pursue the canonisation of 81 Catholics, including priests, religious and laypeople who were martyred by communist forces during the Korean War. The Special Episcopal Commission to Promote Beatification and Canonisation held its closing session June 7 for preliminary examination of 81 Servants of God, the title accorded…
The All-Ireland Rosary Rally drew an unprecedented crowd of around 7,000 people in its first post-pandemic outing, with over 40 buses bringing pilgrims to Knock from around the island. The All-Ireland Rosary Rally was started by Canon Michael Fitzgerald of the Cloyne diocese over thirty years ago. He was inspired by the rosary rallies of…
Pope urges Sicilian priests to be moral guides but to ‘drop the lace’ Pope Francis told priests and bishops from the Italian island of Sicily June 9 to be strong moral guides, and to update their art and vestments in conformity with Church reforms. “In Sicily, people still look to priests as spiritual and moral…
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