In-demand Catholic primary schools in Belfast have created more places for pupils after a campaign drive by parents. The extra 32 places were created after 80 children are believed to have missed out on P1 places in two schools, St Ita’s and St Joseph’s, in the Parish of Drumbo and Carryduff in the last three…
The faithful are being encouraged to celebrate ‘National Holy Wells Day’ as an opportunity to pray for global access to clean water rights. National Holy Wells Day is an initiative of Loving Sister Earth and Columba Community, Derry and will be celebrated on Sunday, June 18. Appealing to Ireland’s long and rich tradition of praying…
Debate about the role of religion in school admissions processes continues to take place in the absence of data, heedless of how oversubscription and a lack of resources are the real problems on the ground, according to the body that represents Ireland’s Catholic primary schools. Speaking to The Irish Catholic following a forum in Croke…
A primary school choir from Co. Down has narrowly lost getting to the fi nal of Britain’s Got Talent. St Patrick’s Junior Choir from Drumgreenagh outside Rathfriland, had impressed the judges with their rendition of Katy Perry’s Roar during Monday’s semi-final. “You sounded amazing,” said head judge Simon Cowell. “I love your personalities individually and…
A new lay-led initiative is aiming to put a structure for evangelisation in place in Ireland, modelled on a successful movement in the States. A mission team from FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students) has been invited to Ireland as part of The Summit ’17, which takes place at Croke Park Conference Centre in Dublin…
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin greets Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria on his visit to Dublin. Photo: John McElroy
“Justice must be allowed to run its course,” in connection with child abuse charges levelled in Australia at Cardinal George Pell, who has headed the Vatican’s Secretariat of the Economy since 2014, according to Sydney’s Archbishop Anthony Fisher. Maintaining that the cardinal is entitled to the presumption of innocence while the “impartial pursuit of justice”…
The murder case of Salvadoran martyr Blessed Oscar Romero has been reopened. The Archbishop of San Salvador, an outspoken critic of the violence in the El Salvador Civil War as well as poverty and corruption in the Central American country, was shot and killed while celebrating Mass in 1980, but because of an amnesty prohibiting…
Mags Gargan and Chai Brady New missionaries will ‘inject new life’ Irish parishioners are being urged to embrace new thinking and a new wave of missionaries from overseas as a way to revitalise the Church in Ireland. Decades after Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich provoked derision in the 1980s by saying the Church in Ireland would…
Pope calls for an end to violent clashes in Central African Republic Pope Francis has prayed for the end of conflict between Christian and Muslim militias in the Central African Republic. Last week clashes between the two warring sides intensified in the eastern town of Bria on May 20, which led to the deaths of…
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