The Church must “earn the right to be listened to” in a changing Ireland rather than expect the influence it held in the past, Bishop Paul Dempsey has said. Speaking at Croke Park on Sunday at the conclusion of the three-day Walk the Cross pilgrimage, the Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin addressed pilgrims who had walked…
Irish clergy have been invited for the first time to take part in the ‘European Futsal Championship For Priests’, which will be held in Prishtina, Kosovo, on February 1-5, 2027. Fr Mark Quinn, Tuam Parish, who is organising the Irish team, told The Irish Catholic that the tournament is in its 19th year, but it’s…
The President of the Legion of Mary has welcomed the beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, recalling an address in which the American broadcaster-bishop called the Dublin-founded movement “my favourite group”. Sheen was declared Blessed at a Mass in St Louis on Thursday, September 24. Declan Lawlor, President of the Legion of Mary said he…
The Bishop of Down and Connor has paid tribute to the men and women who built St Michael the Archangel Parish in West Belfast during the “darkest days” of the Troubles. Speaking at the Golden Jubilee Mass on Saturday evening, Bishop Alan McGuckian said the parish church still bears “visible signs” of the decades-long conflict,…
The canonisation Cause of First World War chaplain Fr Willie Doyle SJ is set to move to Rome following the formal conclusion of its diocesan phase next month. The Irish phase will close during Solemn Vespers at the Cathedral of Christ the King, Mullingar, at 4pm on October 18, after which evidence gathered by the…
As the illumination of Belfast City Hall in support of the ‘International Safe Abortion Day’, which was to take place last Monday, September 28, was put on hold, Precious Life held a march from Donegall Place to the City Hall carrying lights in a public procession for unborn children. While marching, the crowd were chanting “we…
Archbishop of Armagh Eamon Martin and other Church leaders are offering prayers to communities closely affected by the Lough Neagh pollution and ecological crisis, “including farming and fishing communities, local businesses and families.” In a statement published after the Church leaders’ visit to Cranfield, on the shore of Lough Neagh in Co. Down, the Church…
Archbishop Eamon Martin has issued a joint statement with Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh John McDowell on the situation in Drumcree, calling on Christians in Northern Ireland to think about how they can be good neighbours to each other. “We cannot think of any time in the last thirty years when this simple message…
Pope blasts assisted suicide as ‘false compassion’ at French shrine known for miraculous cures. Pope Leo XIV on Sunday blasted the legalisation of medically assisted death as immoral “false compassion,” as he doubled down on Catholic teaching about life during a visit Sunday to Lourdes, the French Catholic shrine associated with miraculous cures of the…
Millions of Christians in Ethiopia gathered to celebrate Meskel, a religious holiday that commemorates the discovery of the True Cross by the Roman empress Helena in the 4th century, even as fighting continued in the troubled northern region of Tigray. Meskel holds added significance in Ethiopia, a largely agrarian society, as it marks, along with…
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