DIT chaplaincy celebrates Luas opening Celebrating the opening of the new Luas line at the Grangegorman campus of Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), the Pastoral Care and Chaplaincy Service at DIT are offering “a vibrant week of events” from December 11-14 in St Laurence’s Church. Admission to all events is free and begins on Monday 11…
Almost 10,000 people are reported as missing to Gardaí every year. On Wednesday (6th December) a commemorative ceremony in Farmleigh, Dublin marked National Missing Person’s Day. This year’s theme focused on DNA matching, a technique which just days earlier, helped to identify the remains of Joe Reilly, missing since 2006. In 2000 following the disappearance…
The Sisters of St Mary’s Abbey celebrated their new book ‘A Year in the Life – Glencairn Abbey’ on Saturday with an Advent Service. The book was launched by Mairéad Lavery, editor of Country Living, with Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan. Also present was Mother Marie Fahy, Abbess of Glencairn Abbey and Dom Richard Purcell, Abbot of…
The Church’s overseas development charity Trócaire have launched their Christmas 2017 appeal with a new video entitled ‘Until Love Conquers Fear’. The video highlights the plight of all those facing fear this Christmas, and the work Trócaire does to respond to those in need. The director of Trócaire, Éamonn Meehan, said: “The people we work…
The body representing Catholic primary schools throughout Ireland has called on the Government to review how schools are funded, following the delayed payment this weeks of grants that were due last month. “The late payment of the Minor Works Grant has caused a great deal of unease in schools,” Catholic Primary Schools Management Association head…
As church gate collections take place across the country this weekend for the Society of St Vincent de Paul, the National SVP vice-president for members has reminded the public not to forget donations for teenagers. “Many of the families we visit at this time of year are desperately trying to cater for their small children,”…
Cost seen as barrier to new translation Despite ongoing complaints from some parishioners about some of the texts of prayers used at Mass across the country, there are no plans to review it in Ireland or return to an earlier translation of the Missal, The Irish Catholic can reveal. This is despite the fact…
Luke Silke and Greg Daly Former residents of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home have rejected what they see as attempts to use controversy surrounding the home to promote legislation permitting wider access to abortion in Ireland. One former resident, a prominent campaigner for the full story of Tuam to emerge, told The Irish Catholic that he…
Thousands of the faithful broke the silence of the ghost town that is Myanmar’s capital city to welcome Pope Francis on the second day of his historic visit to the embattled nation. Colours and music filled the streets all the way to Naypyidaw airport, with exuberant Christians donning their t-shirts with the logo of Francis’…
Egypt’s Coptic Christians – often the target of Islamist violence in the country – have pledged solidarity and support after a deadly terror attack on a mosque in Sinai which left at least 305 worshippers dead. Pope Tawadros II, along with all members of the Coptic Church, extended their condolences to the victims’ families, a…
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