Pilgrims from across Ireland and the world gathered in the thousands to scale the 765 metres up Croagh Patrick in Co. Mayo for the annual Reek Sunday pilgrimage last weekend. The theme for this year’s journey was ‘Christian Hope.’ This centuries-old tradition is celebrated on the last Sunday of July every year, inviting all to…
Even more than before the fire, the restored Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris is a glamorous setting for festive ceremonies. The Parisian Cardinal Vingt-Trois has now also been laid to rest here. Paris and France bid farewell to Cardinal André Vingt-Trois on Wednesday. The former Archbishop of Paris died on Friday at the age of 82…
The Pope went on holiday for a good two weeks. A holiday? Not quite. Leo XIV did move to the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo. But numerous appointments interfered with the planned holiday. Now he is back in the Vatican. Well arrived! Pope Leo XIV is back home. The head of the Catholic Church…
Children in the Gaza Strip are the first and most affected victims of a war aimed at wiping out the Palestinians from that territory. The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has said more than 15,000 children in Gaza have been killed, over 34,000 injured, and nearly 1 million displaced. There’s no other place in the…
Irish Dominican nuns protest ‘indiscriminate destruction of innocent lives in Gaza’ The President of Ireland Michael D Higgins has quoted Pope Leo XIV in his condemnation of the recent killing of civilians in Gaza. The Irish President in a statement this week said: “In his weekend statement on these issues, Pope Leo XIV has used…
“Young people are not just the future of the Church – they are its present,” said Bishop Fintan Gavin of Cork and Ross, Chair for Evangelisation, Catechetics, and Pastoral Renewal for the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference, speaking ahead of the upcoming Jubilee of Youth. Over 600 young adults will travel from Ireland to Rome from…
Cork City councillors who voted against renaming Bishop Lucey Park have strongly criticised what they see as an attempt to rewrite history and erase an important figure in the city’s Catholic heritage. Councillors voted 17-11 last week to begin a process that could see Bishop Lucey Park — named in honour of Bishop Cornelius Lucey…
The Diocese of Galway has announced that the remains of the late Bishop Eamonn Casey would no longer rest in the crypt of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumed into Heaven and St Nicholas and will be laid in an undisclosed location. In a press release, the Diocese said they recognised the deep…
Parishioners of the Village of Gneeveguilla located in East Kerry might soon have to be buried outside of the parish, warns Fianna Fáil Kerry TD Michael Cahill. “There’s only a handful of burial plots left,” he told The Irish Catholic. The cemetery is located on the grounds of the Church of the Holy Rosary and…
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