The Youth 2000 Valentine’s Ball is an entrenched tradition for many young Catholics around Ireland, but due to the pandemic, many will be tuning in to the Youth 2000 version of Blind Date this year. Speaking to The Irish Catholic, Youth 2000’s Emma Maloney explained that the pandemic made their usual fundraising ball impossible this…
Senator Ronán Mullen has said it is “critical” priests “should be prioritised as essential workers” for vaccination by Government, especially for their work ministering to the grieving. Commenting on priests’ work in caring for the grieving, Senator RonánMullen told The Irish Catholic that it is critical priest’s health is prioritised. “It is critical that their…
The director of Precious Life called the leaders of the North Assembly “hypocrites” after the Minister for Health revealed that 1091 abortions took place in 2020 following the introduction of legal abortion on 31 March 2020. Bernadette Smyth, Director of Precious Life, told The Irish Catholic that she is “angry” at the government’s ”hypocrisy” in…
The Mater Dei Academy, a new independent Catholic secondary school in Cork, hopes to form faith-filled Catholics through their Classical education model. The school is a lay led initiative, facilitated by the Dominican community in Cork, which opened in September 2020. Co-founder Padraig Cantillon told The Irish Catholic the school is “proud” of their “unique”…
The community of Moyross feel “betrayed” by the Green party’s act of “bad faith” over the proposed construction of a new road, says Moyross PP Fr Pat Hogan. The priest’s comments come as pressure mounts on Green Party leader Eamon Ryan over his failure to progress a link road between Coonagh and Knockalisheen at Moyross,…
At a “tense time” in the North, Bishop Donal McKeown has called for everyone in “leadership positions to ask for calm rather than confrontation” after a man was arrested at a memorial for the victims of the Ormeau Road massacre in Belfast – a loyalist attack the arrested man was seriously injured in. Speaking to The Irish…
A proposed ban on “conversion therapy” for sexual orientation or gender identity in Australia’s Victoria state is far too broad and could target normal prayer and conversations between children and parents, Catholic bishops and Muslim leaders warned this week. “Unfortunately, this bill doesn’t just ban outdated and insidious practices of coercion and harm, which we…
More than 2,700 healthcare professionals have signed an open letter stating that they are “gravely concerned” about the attempt to introduce assisted suicide in Ireland. Opponents of the bill, including the majority of geriatricians, argue that it stigmatises the elderly, sick and disabled. The letter came as submissions close for the second stage of the…
In the midst of the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, thousands of Eritrean refugees who fled oppression and authoritarianism have been deported back to their home country, said an Eritrean Catholic priest. Fr Mussie Zerai, a priest of the Archdiocese of Asmara, Eritrea, who works with migrants, said the refugees were in Schimelba and Hitsats…
President Joe Biden’s decision to rescind a regulation governing the Title X family planning programme that was enforced by the Trump administration “will force abortion” to be part of the programme and “may be unlawful,” said the chairman of the US bishops’ pro-life committee. “We have long supported efforts to ensure that the provision and…
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