“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 –…

The canonisation of Mother Teresa will be formally approved on March 15, the Vatican has announced. The Albania-born nun, who studied briefly in Rathfarnham, Dublin, when she was 18 before moving to India, and who established a community in west Belfast’s Ballymurphy in 1971, is to be canonised along with four others.  The March 15…

Ability to ‘see’ can dissolve racism – Ghana cardinal The Zulu way of greeting, in which people greet others by saying “Sawubona”, meaning “I see you”, points a way towards how we can dissolve racism, Ghana’s Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, has said. Speaking at ‘Black and White in America: How deep the divide?’, a conference…

The North’s Minister of Education has praised Catholic school principals for their “vision and commitment to changing education” and their campaign against academic selection. Education Minister, John O’Dowd, was speaking at the annual conference of the Catholic Principals Association (CPA) in the Waterfront Hall in Belfast on Friday. He told the over 300 people at…

Since 1889, Hayes & Finch have been manufacturing and supplying the finest quality products to churches in every corner of Ireland. In 1943, the Second World War forced the company to regrettably put their Dublin factory into mothballs due to world shortage of raw materials required to maintain production. The company was anxious to regain…

A report on the abuse by clergy of hundreds of Pennsylvania children over several decades and the best picture Oscar win for Spotlight have “brought painful, but important, reminders that we must remain vigilant in our efforts to protect children from the scourge of abuse”, the head of the US bishops’ child protection agency has…

The Irish priest who leads the Church’s lobbying campaign at the European Union (EU) has warned that only the most “ideologically driven” politicians or media outlets attempt to silence Church leaders from speaking publically. Fr Patrick Daly, General Secretary of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the EU (COMECE), insisted Catholic bishops “have a…

Volunteers with the Irish Cancer Society getting their flowers ready for sale for Daffodil Day tomorrow (Friday), Ireland’s longest running and biggest fundraising day. www.cancer.ie

Australian Cardinal George Pell has promised to work with a group of abuse survivors to help support healing and protection programmes and prevent suicide among victims. “One suicide is too many. And there have been many such tragic suicides,” he said, continuing, “I commit myself to working with the group to try to stop this…