Colm FitzpatrickAfter 65 years, St Martin Apostolate has announced the launch of the digital version of the St Martin Magazine – the publication of this digital version was launched in conjunction with Magzster.com. www.stmartin.ie/subscriptions Since 1952, St Martin Apostolate, as well as being home to the Moving Crib, has published the monthly St Martin Magazine. The…
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Job vacancy – Marketing and Events Executive
Mags GarganGrace Communications is a dynamic company publishing The Irish Catholic newspaper with a weekly readership of over 90,000 people. The company also owns Columba Press and Currach Press publishing a wide range of books. As part of the continued growth of the company now seeks to appoint a Marketing and Events Executive. The Marketing and Events Executive will drive…
Ireland’s first Jesuit bishop to helm Raphoe diocese
Greg Daly
Fr Alan McGuckian SJ is to succeed Bishop Philip Boyce Fr Alan McGuckian SJ is to succeed Bishop Philip Boyce as Bishop of Raphoe, the Vatican has announced. He will be Ireland’s first Jesuit bishop in over 200 years. Bishop-elect McGuckian was born in Cloughmills, Co. Antrim in 1953, and after studying Irish and Philosophy…
No more Sunday funerals in Kerry
The Bishop of Kerry has announced that from September, no funerals in the diocese will take place on a Sunday, for liturgical reasons and because of the reduction in priests. acknowleged that “many will have reservations about this decision” but said it had been taken “after extensive consultation with laity and clergy throughout the diocese”…
Vatican Roundup
Safeguard the world God created, Vatican asks Muslims The Vatican’s annual message to Muslims at the end of Ramadan called on both Christians and Muslims to protect God’s creation. “Our vocation to be guardians of God’s handiwork is not optional, nor is it tangential to our religious commitment as Christians and Muslims: it is an…
Reds Limerick novena ‘on the buses’
Courtney McGrailRector Fr Seamus Enright pictured at the launch of the Limerick Novena outside the Mount St Alphonsus Redemptorist church in Limerick, with a special Bus Ėireann bus advertising the solemn novena in honour of Our Mother of Perpetual Help from June 16-24. Photo: Brian Gavin/Press 22
News in Brief
Meath composer writes hymn for papal visit A musician from the Diocese of Meath has been selected to write the lead hymn for the World Meeting of Families. Entitled ‘A Joy for all the World’, the hymn was composed by Ephrem Feeley, one of Ireland’s most established composers of liturgical music, with over 200 pieces…
Columbans criticise President Trump on climate u-turn
The Superior General of the Missionary Society of St Columban has criticised the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement as “jeopardising” global efforts to prevent the destruction of the planet. Fr Kevin O’Neill SSC said the Columbans “stand against policies that negatively affect the communities we serve, our common home, and in particular the…
“Greater family rejection” for some Christians
Chai Brady
Christians are finding it increasingly difficult to share their faith in the workplace and even among family, according to the newly appointed Presbyterian Moderator. Rev. Dr Noble McNeely was officially installed as the new Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ireland (PCI) at a general assembly on Tuesday in Belfast. He told the congregation that…
A right to work would help ‘restore dignity’ to refugees
An historic ruling by the Supreme Court against the prohibition on a right to work for asylum seekers has been welcomed as an opportunity to restore the dignity of those living in direct provision. Stephen Ng’ang’a, the coordinator of Core Group of Asylum Seekers, told The Irish Catholic the right to work would mean “asylum…