Msgr La Flynn, Prior at Lough Derg expressed his “deep sorrow” to the victims, following the conclusion of the court case which sentenced a former Lough Derg worker who sexually harassed women to a four-year jail term. Tomas Gallagher asked the victims to help him “repair washing machines”, deceiving them before sexually harassing. He pleaded…
Ireland will be nationally re-consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus on Sunday June 22 at Knock Shrine, Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan of Waterford and Lismore has announced in a pastoral letter. The re-consecration marks the 350th anniversary of the first apparition of the Sacred Heart to St Margaret Mary Alacoque. Ireland was the first country…
A Donegal Councillor is calling for a new bank holiday in honour of St Colmcille to be established in Ireland. Cllr Jimmy Kavanagh presented the idea to Donegal County Council in a recent council meeting. Speaking to The Irish Catholic, Cllr Kavanagh said Ireland is “almost three days below the EU average” in the number…
I was covering the peace process, in the days before the Good Friday Agreement was forged, there was a lot of talk about a ‘Pan-Nationalist Front’. It was a unionist term for an alliance forged by the Taoiseach Albert Reynolds, SDLP leader John Hume, and Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams to pursue a peace settlement. It’s…
Paolo Affatato The best time to visit Genazzano, a picturesque medieval town in Lazio, about 45 km south of Rome, is early July — when the streets themselves bloom beneath your feet. The town is famous for its Infiorata, a traditional flower festival held on the first Sunday of July to mark the feast of…
As tensions between Russia and Ukraine continue to escalate despite international efforts to broker a ceasefire, Pope Leo XIV Wednesday afternoon had a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Pope’s phone conversation with Putin, confirmed by a Vatican spokesman late Wednesday night, came the same day that United States President Donald Trump had…
It is common knowledge that Pope Leo XIV knows his home country, the USA, and his missionary country, Peru. But he is also familiar with the evil consequences of communism in Eastern Europe. This is reported by the former Archbishop of Prague. Leo XIV, the first pope from the USA, is apparently a convinced anti-communist…
Christian married couples should seek to lead cohabiting couples towards marriage, Pope Leo has said in a message to participants in a seminar organised by the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life in Rome this week. The number of cohabiting couples in Ireland has soared in recent decades from almost zero in the 1990s…
“Lough Derg will not be the hungriest place on Earth this weekend. That will be Gaza,” said Fr Eamonn Conway at the Lough Derg opening Mass last week for the three-day pilgrimage season. Currently only a trickle of food is reaching Gaza. The priest told pilgrims that the constant display of images of starving children and their…
Youth ministry must be active in every parish, according to the Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, Denis Nulty. Bishop Nulty made the comment after a meeting with youth leaders, to discuss ‘intentional youth ministry’. This followed a gathering organised last month by Bishop Fintan Gavin, when they discussed the role of youth in the Irish…
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