Dublin is to host a major retreat for women this weekend as the first international event held by the US-based ‘Blessed Is She’ movement. Originally planned to take place at a city centre location, huge demand meant the two-day retreat had to be moved to the Emmaus Centre in Swords, Co. Dublin, where Archbishop Diarmuid…
A new 32-county, pro-life republican party will give a voice to the disillusioned and unrepresented citizens of Ireland, former Sinn Féin TD Peadar Tóibín has said. The Meath West TD, who resigned from Sinn Féin last week following a six-month suspension for refusing to vote for the removal of the Eighth Amendment, said the new…
The widow of former Munster rugby coach Anthony Foley has said her faith has grown stronger since her husband’s death, and has helped her coped with his loss. Speaking on RTÉ radio, Olive Foley said: “I have a deep faith, and it’s probably even strengthened over the last couple of years and I do believe…
An Irish priest has praised his friend and colleague who was killed in South Sudan during a brutal attack last week. Fr Victor-Luke Odhiambo SJ was shot dead in the early hours of Thursday, November 15, when unknown assailants entered the Jesuit residence in Comboni. The assailants fled when other Jesuits in the residence, roused…
An Irish football team have made their country proud after winning gold in an international sporting event. The Irish Homeless Street Leagues, which has run numerous street leagues around Ireland since 2003, lifted the Fundacion Telmex Telcel Trophy after beating Romania 8-3 in their final match. The 16th edition of the Homeless World Cup took…
A priest was attacked by a Hindu mob in northern India, and then arrested by police after Hindus accused him of causing the disturbance. Fr Vineet Vincent Pereira was conducting a prayer service in Ghohana town in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh when right-wing Hindus attacked him. The priest lives in a house with…
A parish priest has said he is “disappointed” that a local council have prioritised removing a statue of the Virgin Mary on land close to a planned goldmine, and that there should be a focus on the environmental impact of the development. The eight-foot (2.4m) high statue is located in Greencastle on land where Canadian…
Catholic leaders applauded a presidential order requiring education ministry officials to return to churches all of the schools that religious denominations surrendered to the government five decades ago. President Uhuru Kenyatta said he had given government officials one week for the restoration of the schools’ ownership to churches, to return the land they occupy and…
Scotland’s last Catholic queen is hotly tipped to be the role that sees Ireland’s Saoirse Ronan [pictured] win her first Academy Award. Although criticised by historians, Josie Rourke’s film Mary Queen of Scots is already winning rave reviews for Ms Ronan and Margot Robbie’s performances as the Catholic queen and her English nemesis, Elizabeth I.…
New guidelines on the question of clerical sexual abuse were discussed and presented during the general assembly of Italy’s bishops, with the creation of a National Advisory Centre to aid bishops and the promises to make a “more radical evangelical choice” in terms of prevention. “Woe to whoever touches children,” said Italian Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti,…
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