Ecuadorian priest awarded for feeding hundreds daily The Mayor’s Office of Guayaquil awarded Fr Wilson Malavé Parrales, director of the Lord of Good Hope Soup Kitchen for the Brother in Need, with the Urban Heroes Medal of Merit. The July 25 award ceremony commemorated the 486th anniversary of the founding of the city. The Archdiocese…
The Boston Globe reported July 29 that police in the Boston suburb of Wellesley have charged former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick with three counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14 in a criminal complaint filed by Wellesley Police in a district court in nearby Dedham, Massachusetts. A summons has been issued ordering…
Bishop of Cork and Ross Fintan Gavin has insisted that more parishes sharing fewer priests will increasingly be the reality in the diocese. As a response to the vocations crisis, he has announced a series of clustering of parishes to share resources and co-ordinate Mass times together. He said the future is going to involve what he…
Many would like to believe the US Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalising abortion settled the issue “once and for all”, but instead “all it did was establish a special-rules regime for abortion jurisprudence”, said Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch. This “has left these cases out of step with other court decisions and neutral principles…
The former Police Ombudsman for the North has called for a full international inquiry into the circumstances that led to the Omagh bomb in 1998. Writing in her column in The Irish Catholic, Baroness Nuala O’Loan also criticised plans by the British government to offer an amnesty when it comes to Troubles-related deaths. She accused…
The Columban fathers have received praise for their environmental work and attitudes in an upcoming documentary from Afri. The organisation’s impending Food Sovereignty documentary saw Bobby Pagusara of Sustainable Development Philippines commend the Columbans on their work of instilling environmental consciousness in the Philippines. “The Columbans do very good work here in the Philippines. When…
Philippine weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz lifted not only weights, but her entire country following her gold medal success at the Tokyo Olympics. Ms Diaz’s victory came in the women’s 55-kilogram weightlifting event July 26, which saw her set an Olympic record after lifting a combined weight of 224 kg. Following her final lift, Ms Diaz, 30,…
The North’s Housing Executive has had to rehome 256 individuals or families forced to flee their home in the last 12 months because of intimidation. Of those, almost all (230) were threatened by paramilitary organisations. At the weekend police confirmed they are investigating an incident in which a Catholic family were forced to flee from their…
Boko Haram sympathisers and others who support Nigeria being an Islamic State are stalling the fight against militants in the West African country, a local priest has said. According to Fr George Ehusani, a priest of the Diocese of Lokoja and executive director of the Lux Terra Leadership Foundation, many of those secretly backing the…
Following contact by a parishioner based in Cavan, Bishop Martin Hayes of Kilmore diocese confirmed he would meet with pro-life groups to discuss future collaborations. Local Catholic Liam DePaor shared the response he received from the diocesan secretary with The Irish Catholic. It read: “Bishop Martin wishes to acknowledge your email and to say that…