The Ukrainian Catholic community in Ireland have been taking “enormous” solace in the concern shown by Irish people about the widely-reported threat Russia poses their country, Fr Vasyl Kornitsky, chaplain to the Ukrainian community has said. Speaking to The Irish Catholic, Fr Kornitsky expressed gratitude for “how supportive, how caring the Irish community has been”. “Every…
The relentlessness of 24 hour news cycles has created a sense of panic among young people, psychotherapist and author of Fragile, Stella O’Malley has said. Ms O’Malley said this has been particularly acute in the reportage of the climate crisis, the Covid pandemic, and more recently the Russian-Ukrainian crisis. This comes following a major report…
Staff reporter Prominent theologian and author Rev. Dr Vivian Boland OP has warned that the synodal process the Church is embarking upon may focus too much on “organisation and management”. Speaking to The Irish Catholic newspaper Dr Boland said it would be useful for the synodal process to consider the entirety of the Church rather…
Father Stuart Long, who was a priest of the Diocese of Helena, Montana, is set to be the main character in a motion picture starring Mark Wahlberg as the priest himself, with Mel Gibson playing the priest’s father. The film is set to release April 15, 2022, Good Friday. Father Stu, as he was affectionately…
A close confidant of the Pope has revealed how he felt touched by the ability of the Pontiff to reach across the sectarian divide in the North. Austen Ivereigh, who has co-authored a book with Francis as well as being acknowledged as one of the Argentine Pope’s most authoritative biographers, said his recent experience in Belfast…
A cardinal who had served as an aide to now-retired Pope Benedict XVI and was present for his meetings with survivors of clerical sexual abuse said he never found in him any shadow or attempt to hide or minimise anything”. The depths of human sin and depravity “distressed him intimately, and he sometimes remained silent…
The city of Louisville, Kentucky, is paying a local police officer a $75,000 settlement after he was suspended for praying outside an abortion clinic, according to the firm representing him. Officer Matthew Schrenger was off-duty when he stopped to pray with his father on the public sidewalk outside the EMW Women’s Surgical Center nearly a…
The Society of the Divine Word (SVD) welcomed Saturday new Frs Clement Kwabena Narcher, Joseph Mensah and Liwei Huang, with Archbishop Farrell exhorting the men to go forward “so that the Gospel may reach the ends of the earth”. Speaking at the ordination in Mountview parish, Archbishop Farrell said the new Fathers have been “availing of…
A Supreme Court ruling dismissing an appeal by the Minister for Education against two homeschooled students excluded from the Leaving Cert calculated grades scheme has been welcomed by home-schooling parents. Wicklow-based Jaclyn Ascough, who has spent more than 20 years homeschooling her seven children – three of which she still teaches – said the ruling…
Fr Giuse (Joseph) Tran Ngoc Thanh, OP, was killed in a knife attack on Saturday. Fr Tran was attacked January 29 at a mission of Dak Mot, about 40 miles northwest of Kon Tum. He was hearing confessions before the last Mass of the evening, according to Ordo Praedicatorum on Facebook. The Diocese of Kon…
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