Icicles hang from a fountain in St Peter’s Square at the Vatican. Rome has not been immune to a blast of icy weather across the European continent. Photo: CNS
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Portrait of the Blessed
Courtney McGrailBishop Fintan Monahan of Killaloe with Navan-based artist Agnieszka Ryan and her portrait of Blessed John Henry Newman, which Tuam Council of Priests had commissioned as a gift for the bishop, a former priest of the Archdiocese of Tuam. Bishop Monahan has long been an admirer of the 19th-Century cardinal, about whom his licentiate thesis…
Limerick is the ‘examplar’ on World Day of Peace – Bishop
Paul Keenan
Limerick city has been lauded as an exemplar of “active nonviolence” during New Year peace messages. As Irish bishops issued homilies for the 50th World Day of Peace on January 1, and after a year of extreme gangland violence in some quarters, Bishop Brendan Leahy of Limerick hailed the role of nonviolence in a renewed…
News in Brief
Bishop William Crean address Bishop William Crean will address the annual Diocese of Kerry Clergy Assembly on January 10. The title of his talk is ‘From what wells do we drink now? – Reflections on the changing patterns of faith and practice in Ireland today’. The venue is the Gleneagle Hotel, Muckross Road, Killarney, beginning…
Zero tolerance simply about ministry, advocate argues
Greg Daly
‘Zero tolerance’ is key to child protection in the Irish Church and should not be confused with how priests are handled when out of ministry, the sole Irish member of Pope Francis’ child protection commission has said. Commenting on the Pope’s call to bishops on the Feast of the Holy Innocents for the Church to…
Christian leaders offer prayer for 2017
The leaders of Ireland’s main Christian denominations have joined in praying for a year in which people remember both God and neighbour. In a joint New Year’s message, Archbishop Eamon Martin, Archbishop Richard Clarke, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh, Rt Rev John McDowell, President of the Irish Council of Churches, Rev. Bill Mullally, President…
Striker thanks God for ‘scorpion kick’ goal
The footballer responsible for a spectacular ‘scorpion kick’ goal during a New Year’s game in the English premier league has said God helped him to carry off the near-impossible shot to bring his team to victory. Playing with Arsenal in the January 1 face-off against south London’s Crystal Palace, French international Olivier Giroud made the…
New Dáil motion will include plight of persecuted Christians
Move comes after criticism of earlier ‘outrageous’ motion The Dáil is set to debate a full motion condemning the persecution of Christians in the Middle East, The Irish Catholic has learned. Just weeks after the failure of politicians to include Christians in a motion attacking the treatment of Iraq’s Yazidi minority by so-called Islamic…
Bearing gifts we traverse afar…
Three Wise Men from the Scoil ĺosa primary school Christmas pageant in Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo. Photo: Stephen Farragher.
Facebook founder tells followers religion is ‘very important’ to him
The founder of social media giant Facebook has asserted the importance of faith in a Christmas message to followers. The previously avowed atheist took to social media over the festive period to wish one and all a “Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah”, prompting one viewer to pose the question: “Aren’t you an atheist?” Zuckerberg was…