The memory of L’Arche founder Jean Vanier can best be served by deliberately working to honour our common humanity, the CEO of L’Arche Ireland has said. Speaking to this newspaper following the death in Paris of Mr Vanier on Tuesday morning, Maireid Boland Brabazon said the founder of the L’Arche and Faith and Light movements…
Ireland’s largest private healthcare group, founded by the Bon Secours, is in advanced talks regarding a merger with one of the largest health groups in the US founded by the same order. Bon Secours Health Systems in Ireland have signed a letter of intent and plan to finalise an agreement over the coming months with…
Being pro-life calls for an extension beyond the respect just for human life, the Environmental Justice Officer with the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice has said in the wake of a worldwide UN report. Released this week, the report revealed one million plants and animals are now threatened with extinction, more than ever before…
Parents want their children taught about “respect for themselves and each other, consent, sexual orientation, contraception, STIs and the biological aspects of sexual health”, according to a major new survey of attitudes towards school sex education. The survey of several thousand teachers, parents and pupils took place under the auspices of the National Council for…
A ceasefire was called on this week after days of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel, marking an end to a particularly violent weekend that saw approximately 30 people killed. Over the weekend, around 700 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip. While the majority of the rocket fire was intercepted by…
The Holy Week fire at Notre Dame Cathedral has done something to make people realise the importance of God and faith, according to a prominent Paris-based Irish priest. Speaking to The Irish Catholic, Fr Aidan Troy, who became famous when shielding Catholic schoolgirls from loyalist mobs during the Holy Cross Ardoyne protests in 2001, said…
When Paris’ Cathedral of Notre-Dame caught fire, the world held its collective breath. The spire fell, and the wooden roof was reduced to ash, but the holy relics were saved, and the interior preserved from the worst ravages of fire. Now more than $1 billion (€960m) has been raised to restore Notre-Dame, and a video…
New pro-life party Aontú has said it is “delighted” with the Northern Irish local election results, which saw one candidate take up a seat in Derry. Dr Anne McCloskey was elected in the Ballyarnett area of the city, and is the first Aontú representative to be elected in the North. Overall, the recently-formed party polled…
The Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All-Ireland will say this Sunday that the Lord has not stopped calling people for the priesthood, but he can be difficult to hear among “so many competing voices”. In his pastoral message on Vocations Sunday Archbishop Eamon Martin is “keen” to encourage the priesthood for Irish youth. The…
The Australian Catholic Church is continuing on its ground-breaking path toward a potential dramatic overhaul with the announcement that a panel of experts will thoroughly review the governance and management structures of Catholic dioceses and parishes. Such a review was a key recommendation of Australia’s landmark Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse,…
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