Over a thousand pilgrims went to Lourdes for Dublin Diocese’s annual pilgrimage. It takes three full charter planes to bring a total of 1,300 people to the Shrine. More than 100 assisted pilgrims, about 200 school and college students, a team of doctors, nurses, chaplains, male and female helpers traditionally called ‘brancardiers’ and handmaids, teachers,…
Sunday, September 14 marked the release of the initial set of excerpts from Pope Leo XIV’s first sit-down interview with a journalist, which comes in the form of the landmark new book León XIV: ciudadano del mundo, misionero del siglo XXI, or “Leo XIV: Citizen of the World, Missionary of the 21st Century”. The book…
Just a few months before he was assassinated on September 10, Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk — a conservative campus activist and an outspoken evangelical Christian — said that upon his death, he would want to be remembered for his Christian faith. “If everything completely goes away, how do you want to be remembered?”…
A group of Peruvian expats in Italy celebrated Pope Leo XIV’s 70th birthday on September 14 in true local fashion, bringing a beloved popular devotion in Chiclayo to the Pope’s front door. Every year during his time as Bishop of Chiclayo from 2015 to 2023, Pope Leo would visit the shrine of Jesús Nazareno Cautivo,…
In response to the September 9 airstrike by the Israeli air force against the Hamas leadership in Doha, the capital of Qatar, the auxiliary bishop of the Patriarchal Diocese of Jerusalem of the Latins for Jordan, Bishop Iyad Twal, advocated for a two-state solution to achieve peace in the Middle East. Bishop Twal’s proposal aligns…
On an ordinary September morning in Salzburg, Austria, the improbable happened. Three elderly women, once cloistered nuns, packed their bags, left a retirement home, and marched back to the convent they had called home for most of their lives. They didn’t come alone. Cameras, journalists, and – in a detail that makes the whole episode…
A historic moment: for the first time since the Reformation, an English monarch took part in a Catholic funeral service for a British royal. The Pope also spoke. The Catholic funeral mass for the Duchess of Kent took place in London’s Westminster Cathedral on Tuesday. The liturgy was presided over by Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the…
The Irish Catholic columnist and Director of the Iona Institute David Quinn has received a threatening letter containing a white powder substance claiming to be Anthrax. Gardai were called and the building on Merrion Square where Iona have offices was evacuated. The letter seen by The Irish Catholic newspaper was sent to the Iona Institute…
‘I receive news of miracles and conversions every day from across the world’ – St Carlo’s mother History was made this week as Fr Michael Toomey, parish priest of Holy Family Church, Ardfinnan, Co. Tipperary, returned from Italy carrying with him a first-class relic of the Church’s newest saint, Carlo Acutis. The relic, entrusted to him by…
He once promised, “I’ll be back,” but this time Arnold Schwarzenegger returns not to the silver screen but to the Vatican stage — and alongside an Irish bishop. On October 1st, Bishop Martin Hayes of Kilmore will share the spotlight with the Hollywood action hero and Pope Leo XIV at a landmark Laudato Si’ conference in Rome.…