There is “grave danger” of the normalisation of violence against Christians around the world after two attacks in two days saw 10 Catholics killed in Burkino Faso, an Irish charity has warned. Following yet another attack on a church that killed six people including a priest over the weekend in the African nation, the director…
The Sisters of Charity will sell the Stella Maris Retreat Centre in Howth, Co. Dublin, which is valued at over €3m due to a decline in attendance and cost of maintenance. Thousands of people have gone to the centre for over 125 years and availed of the sacred space of worship and natural beauty. Funds…
New papal norms on preventing clergy sexual abuse are “a blessing that will empower the Church everywhere to bring predators to justice, no matter what rank they hold in the Church”, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, has said. The new juridical instrument “calls for the establishment of…
A group of 62 doctors, scientists, and bioethicists have issued an open letter urging a global moratorium on experiments that alter human genes that can be passed on to subsequent generations, a practice known as ‘germline editing’. “Although we recognise the great scientific advancement represented by gene editing technologies and their potential value for an…
Pope Francis’ decision to allow priests to lead formal parish pilgrimages to Medjugorje, where Mary has allegedly been appearing since 1981, has been enthusiastically welcomed by leading Irish promoters of the pilgrimage site. Over two years after Archbishop Henryk Hoser of Warszawa-Praga was named as the Pope’s special envoy to the Bosnia-Herzegovinan shrine, tasked with…
Helping children who lost their parents when a pair of cyclones hit Mozambique is among the most difficult work in the aftermath, an aid worker has said. “It’s not easy to find the links” to these children’s relatives, said Martina Zavagli, country representative for the Association of Volunteers in International Service Foundation, or AVSI. “Many…
Facebook’s decision to censor an image of a baby in utero is “totally unjustifiable” according to a Christian advocacy group. The Iona Institute criticised the social media giant for placing a “warning screen” over their paid advertisement which depicts an unborn baby at 11 weeks gestation. Beside the foetus are the words ‘still one of…
The community of an Oblate priest who was killed in a hit-and-run in Roscommon over the weekend are “devastated” at the loss. The retired but “very active” Fr Michael Guckian OMI (81) was hit by a car at 11pm on Saturday while walking back to his vehicle on a country road. He lived with the…
Increasing severity in the persecution of Christians in different parts of the world is reaching “genocidal” levels, according to a new report commissioned by the British government. An interim report issued by an Independent Review set up at the request of the UK foreign secretary said that Christians are overwhelmingly the most targeted religious group…
The PLC can help Catholics find and support pro-life candidates, writes Eilís Mulroy All of the main political parties and indeed all of those at the national political level pay detailed and close attention to the local elections. The reason they do so is because they provide a significant window of opportunity in which…
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