A university in England has refused to recognise a Catholic priest as a chaplain over comments that he posted on social media. The University of Nottingham, in central England, confirmed August 25 that it had declined to give official recognition to Fr David Palmer, a priest of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.…
Brandon Scott The Diocese of Waterford and Lismore is mourning the loss of one of its foremost priests, Msgr Michael Olden, who died on Monday. The 86-year-old cleric had recently celebrated the sixty-first anniversary of his ordination from St Patrick’s College, Maynooth. Appointed to the staff of the national seminary in 1966 just after Vatican…
Calls for help with school costs are up 10% compared to previous years, the charity reported, as they are receiving almost 300 calls a day from worried parents. The Society of St Vincent de Paul called on the Government to “to prioritise investment in measures to address educational disadvantage” in a statement August 26. Marcella…
Religious sisters from the Missionaries of Charity and 14 disabled children from an orphanage in Afghanistan arrived safely last Wednesday at Rome’s international airport. A Catholic priest and five sisters from the order founded by Mother Teresa arrived on one of two evacuation flights from Kabul that landed in Rome on August 25 carrying a…
Some 170 Irish pilgrims departed from Cork Airport yesterday (Wednesday) on board a specially-chartered plane organised by Marian Pilgrimages for Medjugorje. It marks one of the first post-coronavirus organised pilgrimages to the Bosnian town where local children first reported apparitions of the Mother of God in 1981. It has been a popular destination with Irish…
The greatest threat to Catholic education is a “lack of identity from within”, the bishop of Derry said in his address to schools for the new school year. “Unless we have some idea of what we stand for, we have nothing to communicate that justifies us being a separate sector,” Bishop Donal McKeown said, August…
Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott urged Catholics to write to their local state legislators because proposed euthanasia laws in New South Wales would fundamentally undermine the relationship between doctors and patients by legitimising doctor-assisted suicide in the state. “It would turn doctors from healers into killers, and that would be a tragedy for the…
Fr Daniel Swartz, chaplain to the US Marines, has safely left Afghanistan amid increasing Taliban control in the state following a period in which he provided pastoral services to Catholic Marines deployed in the country. Fr Swartz’s departure coincides with the US’ formal withdrawal of all troops from the country and the evacuation of Afghanistan’s…
After nearly 1,000 abuse claims were filed against the Diocese of Buffalo in the last two years, the diocese’s Bishop Michael Fisher called it a “tragedy of epic proportions”. The time window to file civil lawsuits in old cases of child sex abuse in New York expired on August 14. A total of 924 claims were…
With the approval of Pope Francis, the Vatican has ordered the dissolution of an Italy-based community, which had its headquarters in Verona and communities in Medjugorje and Brazil. The Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life determined the Regina Pacis Community was to be “suppressed”, citing problems with a lack of…
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