Bishops urge French Catholics to pray and fast as bioethics bill returns to Senate French bishops asked Catholics on Wednesday January 13 to pray and fast for the next four Fridays for respect for human life from conception in response to new legislation. The bishops of France called on “all Catholics, as well as men…
Unity requires prayer, love and fighting the devil, who always sows division, Pope Francis said.
Pope Francis and Pope emeritus Benedict XVI have received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, the Vatican confirmed today. Matteo Bruni, director of the Holy See Press Office, said: “I can confirm that as part of the Vatican City State vaccination program to date, the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine has been administered…
EXCLUSIVE A senior bishop has warned that if a significant number of people refuse to get the Covid-19 vaccine, more people may lose their lives to the virus. Bishop Kevin Doran – who has been one of the most outspoken pro-life voices in the Church in Ireland in recent decades – insisted that “Vaccination, as…
Chai Brady and Jason Osborne An RTÉ sketch which depicted a man described as God being arrested for sexual assault received a record number of complaints, rising to 7,000 this week. The sketch was created by satirical website Waterford Whispers and was broadcast on New Year’s Eve. Last week RTÉ announced that it did not…
Australian Cardinal George Pell has exhorted the Irish youth to lead the Church, lest it continue to sink. The cardinal, exonerated following a lengthy trial and imprisonment in his native country, addressed the young people of Ireland during an interview with EWTN’s Colm Flynn. Asked what he would say to them, he said: “I’d say…
Arnold Schwarzenegger referred US elected representatives to Catholic teaching in a video released on his Twitter page last weekend. The actor and former Governor of California referenced his Catholic upbringing in a video posted in the wake of and in response to the events in the US Capitol last weekend, which saw the Capitol building…
Faith groups ranked poorly after the public were polled regarding the sector demonstrating the best leadership in Ireland. Leadership LIFT Ireland – an initiative to develop the level of leadership nationwide – polled 1,000 members of the public on their attitudes towards leadership standards and asked them to rank the sectors and professions they believed…
What was once a closed military zone has now been opened to pilgrims, writes Michael Kelly One of the highlights of any pilgrimage to the Holy Land now is a visit to the Qasr al-Yahud site in the West Bank where Jesus was baptised in the River Jordan. I first visited the site in 2007,…
Francis has opened up a new ministry while restating the Church’s teaching that only men can be ordained priests, writes Cindy Wooden Recognising “the gifts of each baptised person” – women and men – Pope Francis has ordered a change to Canon Law and liturgical norms so that women could be formally installed as lectors…
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