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The De La Salle Mission Council in Ireland organised a schools’ presentation for eight primary and secondary schools recently. Schools from Macroom, Castlebar, Dundalk, Waterford and Dublin submitted a variety of projects on the theme: Who is St John Baptist de la Salle? Over a hundred students and teachers displayed and edited their projects in…

New general secretary for CPSMA Seamus Mulconry has been appointed as the new general secretary for the Catholic Primary Schools Management Association (CPSMA). CPSMA chairman Martin Hanrahan welcomed the appointment saying Mr Mulconry’s experience as former director of Philanthropy Ireland “will greatly support boards of management and principals of Catholic primary schools as they seek to meet the many…

Europe’s dangerous course

The Church urges the continent to be true to its values, writes Paul Keenan “What has happened to you, the Europe of humanism, the champion of human rights, democracy and freedom? What has happened to you, Europe, the mother of peoples and nations, the mother of great men and women who upheld, and even sacrificed…

A Dublin-based priest has welcomed proposals for greater use of school buildings, but cautioned that such usage would need proper funding. As part of a three-year strategy, Education Minister Richard Bruton has outlined plans for school buildings to be made available out of hours for afterschool care, homework clubs and other community activities. “I’m all…

Vatican workers: Worthy of their wages?

With a flourish he inherited from Argentina’s legendarily populist political force, Peronism, Pope Francis from the beginning has been a vocal champion of labour and workers’ rights, backing measures such as equal pay for equal jobs between men and women, affordable housing and land, and living wages. Just last week, during his daily morning Mass,…

The political activist dropped as reader from Cobh cathedral has criticised attempts to use his situation as grounds to attack the Church. Social Democrat Ken Curtin discovered on Sunday, May 15, that cathedral administrator Fr John McCarthy had removed him from the reading rota at St Colman’s Cathedral because of his party’s support for repealing…