The parish priest of the Kilcoo GAA team who won the All-Ireland senior club final after a tense finale said the community is “delighted” for them. Fr Denis McKinlay, who is based in the nearby Castlewellan in Co. Down told The Irish Catholic that the small parish is “totally committed to the football”. “They live…
Staff reporter A priest who gave Last Rites to a 12-year-old boy killed in a collision with a truck in Limerick last week described it as “terribly harrowing”. Wiktor Chojecki (12) was driving the car on the N21 near Adare when the incident occurred just before 2am. It’s believed he took the vehicle while family…
The former master of the Rotunda hospital has described his relationship with the HSE as “quite toxic at times” and praised voluntary hospitals, the vast majority of which were founded and run by religious orders in Ireland. In his new book, Delivering the Future: Reflections of a Rotunda Master, Sam Coulter-Smith spoke of the need…
More than 800 anti-Christian incidents were reported in France in 2021. The provisional figures were announced on February 10 as part of an ongoing study of anti-religious acts in the Western European country, which has a population of 67 million people. Investigators have so far identified a total of 1,659 anti-religious acts last year, with…
Waterford Council has granted permission to the Refuge of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (RIHM) to found a female-only post-detoxification treatment centre in west Waterford. The RIHM is a Dublin-based collective of individuals from several Catholic organisations across the country, while the nuns are members of the Argentine-founded Servants of the Lord and the Virgin…
The Holy Year 2025 should focus on “restoring a climate of hope and trust” after the coronavirus pandemic and helping people repair their relationships with God, with each other and with the Earth, Pope Francis said. “We must fan the flame of hope that has been given us and help everyone to gain new strength…
Brandon Scott Accord, the Church’s marriage care service which provides marriage preparation courses for Catholic couples, has recently encountered a sizeable increase in engagement with its services during the pandemic, with over 50% more couples availing of its marriage preparation course in 2021 when compared to 2020. According to the latest figures released by Accord,…
French Catholic nun turns 118 Sister Andre Randon, a French nun, celebrated her 118th birthday on February 11. This milestone makes her the second-oldest living person in the world and the oldest living person in Europe, according to the Gerontology Research Group, which validates details of people believed to be 110 or older. In anticipation…
The Minster for Foreign Affairs’ visit to Iran was political “window dressing”, as substantive human rights issues such as the persecution of Christians were not discussed, TD Mattie McGrath has said. Deputy McGrath told The Irish Catholic that its “shameful” that the Government won’t address the issue, calling their actions political “window dressing”. “Christian values…
The Catholic bishops of Quebec, while registering their opposition to the province’s imposition of Covid-19 vaccine passports as a requirement to attend religious services, said this week that they accept the requirement for now, and continue to petition the government to end it. “[I]t seems reasonable to us in the present circumstances to accept certain…
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