Weekend Dublin shoppers were recently introduced to Pope Francis’ message of mercy thanks to a team of parish volunteers working from a ‘Mercy pop up shop’. A rota of parishioners spent a sunny Saturday working from a former hairdressers in the main shopping area of Ballyfermot as part of the ‘24 hours for the Lord’…
Renewal must be a priority for the Church in India, the country’s bishops have said. In a statement following their biennial assembly, the bishops noted the Church’s “excessive preoccupation with institutionalisation, insufficient zeal and fear of proclaiming Christ as the unique saviour”. They also acknowledged a “growing indifference to and lack of commitment to the…
Further State funding for bodies with a religious ethos appears in doubt after the Diocese of Elphin confirmed it was forced to pull out of a local family life centre to guarantee future funding. It was first reported in The Irish Catholic last week that Tusla – the State’s child and family agency – was…
Rugby legend Dan Carter has paid tribute to deceased Kerry teenager Donal Walsh as a “truly inspirational” young man. Donal Walsh lost his brave battle with cancer in May 2013 after coming to national fame for campaigning against youth suicide and his parents continue to spread his message through the Donal Walsh #LiveLife foundation. Advance…
Pilgrims from the parishes in the St Joseph cluster in the Diocese of Killaloe (Aghamore, Ballyhaunis, Ballinlough, Bekan and Knock) at the Door of Mercy, marking the end of their pilgrimage to Knock Shrine on Sunday for the ‘Engaging the Heart’ weekend.
Churches’ differences remain Although the Catholic and Orthodox Churches agree on key contemporary issues, the two remain divided in serious ways, the Russian Orthodox Church’s ‘foreign minister’ has said. “Despite the understanding reached on many vital problems of modernity,” Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk said in an interview, “profound differences remain between Orthodox and Catholic Christians, in particular…
Claims by EU politicians that it cannot cope with the Mediterranean migrant crisis have been dismissed as “rubbish” by special UN envoy Peter Sutherland. Irishman Mr Sutherland, a former Attorney General, who now serves as the UN special representative for migration said it was “utterly excessive” to claim that it would be “impossible for a…
A politician in the Isle of Man has apologised for being “lax” after he was accused of plagiarising large extracts of an article opposing same-sex marriage that appeared in The Irish Catholic newspaper. Zac Hall, who used the allegedly plagiarised text in a speech against same-sex marriage in the Isle of Man’s House of Keys,…
“We are the pro-life generation,” Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, said to a pro-life rally in Washington, DC, on March 2. “We are here to stand up for the rule of law. We are here to defend Texas. We do not want the Supreme Court to overturn a very…
Tusla has expressed misgivings about the Catholic nature of the ethos of the family centre in Boyle EXCLUSIVE The State has threatened to withdraw funding from a Catholic family life centre unless its faith-based ethos is diluted, The Irish Catholic can reveal. The Irish Catholic understands that Tusla – the child and family agency –…
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