Seven sets of human remains that likely belong to infants have been discovered at the site of the former Mother and Baby Institution in Tuam, Co. Galway, according to the Office of the Director of Authorised Intervention, ODAIT. In an update released this morning, November 7, the report states: “forensic experts also confirmed that seven…
Bishop Tom Deenihan of Meath- Ireland’s third largest diocese- has issued a wide-ranging pastoral letter, Future of Our Parishes: Communities of Belonging and Evangelisation, calling for renewed vitality and cooperation among parishes as they face demographic change, fewer priests, and the need for deeper evangelisation. He also reassures parishes that closures or mergers are not being…
The Nigerian community in Ireland have criticised comments from US President Donald Trump, after he threatened to intervene military in the country over Islamic extremist attacks on Christians. In a social media post last weekend, the US president said that Islamic extremists in Nigeria were “killing the Christians and killing them in very large numbers.…
Twenty Dublin priests and the Archbishop prayed for peace in the Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Nagasaki, Japan on November 4. In his homily the Archbishop Dermot Farrell said “One cannot come to this place, this Cathedral, and the church of which it is the centre, without thinking of the horrific suffering that was inflicted on the…
The Irish Catholic’s columnist Fr Billy Swan will start in a new role in the Dicastery for the Clergy on November 24. The priest will work as part of the current Prefect, Cardinal Lazzaro You Heung-sik’s team. Fr Swan’s new role “has to do with matters of seminary formation and ongoing formation of priests,” he…
A pro-life group focused on understanding the growing abortion rates in Ireland and engaging in dialogue with the pro-choice movement is hosting a workshop designed to give people the skills to do exactly that: facilitate conversations around abortion with mutual understanding and less hostility. The Minimise Project, founded by a group of Irish youth after…
Former Green Party leader and minister, Éamon Ryan, has hailed Pope Leo’s commitment to tackling climate change, having attended a conference with him near Rome last month. The former politician attended the Raising Hope Conference in Castel Gandolfo and had the opportunity to see Pope Leo at the landmark event marking the tenth anniversary of…
On Morning Ireland, RTÉ’s Paul Murphy discussed the Prime Time investigation into DJ Carey’s elaborate fraud, which involved forged medical reports and a false cancer diagnosis used to solicit money from friends and acquaintances. At the centre of the deception was a visit to a Kilkenny faith-healing ministry. In 2019, Mr Carey attended a deliverance…
It was early in the morning, when Sister Stanislaus Kennedy — Sr Stan to the nation — was called home. Also early that same morning, Louise Bayliss of the Society of St Vincent de Paul spoke on national radio about the hardship gripping single-parent families as winter closes in. She described how energy poverty is…
A new Irish-language news service run by the Chinese Communist Party needs to be closely monitored Senator Rónán Mullen has said. CGTN Gaeilge operates as a Facebook page that provides links to articles written in Irish on the broadcaster’s website. “It proves that China has almost limitless resources in its efforts to bring its point…