The Iona Institute and the Pro Life Campaign (PLC) are among a number of life advocates set to address the Citizens’ Assembly next month. Following its own written submission to the Assembly as part of the consultation process around the gathering, Iona confirmed that it had received a formal invitation to make a 10-minute presentation…
People participate in a protest against US President Donald Trump’s immigration policy and the recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in New York City. As The Irish Catholic went to press this week, President Trump was expected to sign a new executive order on the issue of migrants. Photo: CNS
Overseas children’s charity, Thai Children’s Trust Ireland, has unveiled its new name as part of ambitious new plans to protect more vulnerable children in Thailand. Thai Children’s Trust was established in 1982 to support the work of Irish-American Redemptorist Priest, Fr Ray Brennan. It now supports an increasingly diverse range of partners, caring for over…
A new community of the Servant Sisters of the Home of the Mother will be established in Roscommon at the invitation of the Bishop of Elphin. Last week Bishop Kevin Doran visited the Servant Sisters of the Home of the Mother Cantabria in the north of Spain to finalise the agreement with Mother Ana Maria…
Divine Mercy Conference organiser Don Devaney tells Greg Daly about bringing God’s mercy into the world “The reason for this year’s conference is that we’re encouraging people to be apostles of mercy,” says Don Devaney of Ireland’s 26th Divine Mercy Conference, held in Dublin’s RDS this weekend. “The theme for this year is ‘Have mercy…
The Presentation Brothers are hosting a series of Lenten talks which offer practical tips for living faith in Ireland today. The ‘Monday at the Monastery’ series of talks returns to the Presentation Brothers’ house in Glasthule, Co. Dublin for four Mondays during Lent. The series has proven popular since it began in 2013, as part…
President Michael D. Higgins meeting with Cardinal Jaime Ortega during his offi cial visit to Cuba last week. President Higgins told The Irish Catholic he was “delighted” to meet with the cardinal and they had “an hour long discussion on current events, local, regional and global”. Cardinal Ortega was Archbishop of Havana for 35 years…
Ten questions based on Catholic Social Teaching for Catholics to ask candidates standing in the Assembly elections: What will you do to address the unacceptable levels of childhood poverty in Northern Ireland and the widening gap between rich and poor? What will you do to uphold the right to life of unborn children and adults…
Tributes have been paid to the former Archbishop of Dublin, Cardinal Desmond Connell, “a just, holy, prayerful man, aware of his own failings” who died peacefully on Tuesday at the age of 90. Born in Dublin in 1926, and ordained by Archbishop John Charles McQuaid in 1951, Cardinal Connell would go on to become a…
Pupils from Senior Infants in Guardian Angels’ N.S. in Blackrock, Dublin created a ‘classroom of love’ on St Valentine’s Day. Photo: Anne Collins
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