On October 16, Pope Leo XIV called on world leaders to show responsibility as he urged the international community to focus on the multitudes across the globe who face hunger, wars and misery. Addressing the World Food Day global ceremony that also marked the 80th anniversary of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation at its…
An Post will issue a new commemorative stamp next week marking the centenary of the ordination of Msgr Hugh O’Flaherty, the Irish priest who saved thousands of lives during the Second World War. From 1942, while serving in the Vatican, Msgr O’Flaherty organised an underground network known as ‘The Organisation’ which helped more than 6,500…
The Archbishopric of Carthage was “nullius”, Tunisia’s socialists declared in Latin in 1964: it ruled “over nothing”. A slap in the face for the claims that Rome had formulated in the 1880s under the protection of France. Tunis/Algiers (KNA) Ancient Christianity in North Africa, with its front men Cyprian of Carthage and Augustine of Hippo,…
Political scientist Marc Frings on the chance for peace in the Middle East “The two-state solution is still an international consensus” Marc Frings has been Secretary General of the Central Committee of German Catholics since 2020. Before Frings took up this post, he headed the office of the CDU-affiliated Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Ramallah, Palestine,…
The exhausted parish priest of Gaza has thanked Irish parishioners for their prayers, support and solidarity during more than two years of war in the region. Argentine-born Fr Gabriel Romanelli IVE said the Christian community in the war-torn territory will play their part in rebuilding their lives, as well as the physical infrastructure. Speaking from…
The government’s budget has used sticky plasters on the housing crisis where major surgery is needed the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice has warned adding that the greed of developers has been rewarded while the young consider emigration. “Once again, the government have prioritised the wants—not the needs—of developers. The real boon came to…
Fr Darren Brennan opened the doors of St Paul’s Parish Centre in Belfast and welcomed parishioners and community members to ask questions about the faith as part of a lay initiative for the Belfast Rosary Festival, which took place last week. Speaking to The Irish Catholic, Fr Brennan shared that around 50-60 people attended the…
Dublin Diocese has applied for planning permission for a major renovation of the Pro-Cathedral in Dublin’s City Centre. The planning application lodged as “Applicant – St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral Parish C/O Schools & Parishes of Diocese of Dublin (RC) Pro-Cathedral House, 83 Marlborough Street, Dublin 1” requests planning for development of the Church, which is a…
Irish Bishops have welcomed the announcement of a ceasefire in Gaza, expressing cautious hope that the fragile truce will hold and lead to a lasting peace. Speaking last Sunday after the ceasefire came into effect, Primate of All Ireland Archbishop Eamon Martin prayed through the intercession of St Oliver Plunkett for the “success of the…
“Love must become a mission,” said Bishop Alan McGuckian SJ, welcoming Dilexi Te (I Have Loved You), Pope Leo XIV’s first Apostolic Exhortation. The document, he said, “moves us from places of comfort to works of compassion and service,” calling Christians to recognise Christ in the poor and confront the structural causes of poverty. Across…