The Irish Christian Friends of Israel have “wholeheartedly” welcomed the US president’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel by moving the US embassy there. The ICFI say that Donald Trump is being portrayed as making the decision executively, and note that the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act is a public law that was…

Archbishop accused of demoralising effect on priests   People who come to Mass “are a dying breed” the Archbishop of Dublin Dr Diarmuid Martin has said. He said: “I could spend all my time being concerned about the people who come to church, but they’re — you know I don’t want to be nasty —…

The Brexit impasse over the border and the North needs to be overcome as a matter of urgency, Bishop Donal McKeown has said. Bishop McKeown’s comments followed the breakdown of EU-UK talks after Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party rejected a plan for Northern Ireland to retain “regulatory alignment” with the Republic, thus effectively retaining the…

The Oireachtas committee on repealing Ireland’s constitutional protections for unborn children had focused minds ahead of this year’s Pro Life Campaign annual conference, according to a PLC spokesperson who said those at the attendance had left feeling “very buoyed up”. “I think the fact that there was such a great attendance at this time of…

Demand from ordinary people is behind a third attempt to bring the Pope’s message of mercy to shoppers in the Midwest in the lead-up to Christmas. The original ‘Mercy on the Mall’ in Shannon’s Skycourt Shopping Centre took place in 2015 at the beginning of the Year of Mercy, Shannon parish priest Fr Tom Ryan…

Irish Catholics have to work hard to make God visible again, David Quinn tells Michael Kelly   For almost 25 years, David Quinn has been a thorn in the side of the liberal establishment both within the Church and in wider society. As Director of The Iona Institute think-tank and a former Editor and columnist…