Fr Eddie Conway OP, prior of St Saviour’s Church, Dublin, outside the Dominick Street church with Dublin’s Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, Bro. Philip Mulryne OP and Ireland’s Dominican provincial Fr Gregory Carroll OP, following the diaconal Dominican ordination ordination of Bro. Philip, a former Northern Ireland, Manchester United and Norwich City football.

A statue of Mary is seen in a collapsed church after an earthquake in Borgo Sant’Antonio near Visso, Italy on October 27. People have prayed for relief after this, the third quake in just two months. Photo: CNS

Dr Mary Redmond, founder of the Irish Hospice Foundation, was sustained through her terminal illness by the strength of her faith, her son has revealed. Speaking at a gala dinner in honour of his late mother on October 21, Patrick Ussher said that when she received the devastating news of cancer, she decided to “surrender…

Knock Basilica will this weekend be the centre of a moving and evocative Marbhna 1916 Requiem Mass in Irish to remember all of those who died in 1916. The Mass, to be celebrated at noon on Sunday, November 6, will be celebrated by Achonry’s Bishop Brendan Kelly, accompanied by music composed by Odhrán O’Casaide.  …

The North’s First Minister Arlene Foster has criticised the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland (ECNI) over its role in the Ashers Bakery case. Following the upholding of a discrimination finding against the McArthur family in failing to supply a cake bearing a message supportive of same-sex marriage Ms Foster said the ECNI had not “covered…

Ireland should act immediately to help child refugees in Calais by taking in 200 unaccompanied children, Sr Stanislas Kennedy has said. The founder of the Immigrant Council of Ireland called on the Taoiseach to respond to admissions by French President Francois Hollande that 1,500 unaccompanied children are at risk and housed in containers outside the…

The Archdiocese of Dublin is discouraging the non-traditional practice of placing mementoes on coffins among new policies around the conduct of funerals. In a new Funeral Ministry document, the diocese states that “a relatively new custom, which is not strictly part of the Funeral Rites, is the presentation of mementoes of the person who has…

The initiative launched by the son of Munster legend Anthony ‘Axel’ Foley to get people going back to Mass has been met with huge support across Ireland and beyond. Eleven-year-old Tony set up a Facebook page in honour of his father to appeal to people to attend Mass for eight Sundays to Christmas to remember…

A statue of St Patrick saved from destruction in Co. Leitrim is on its was to a new home in Bangkok, Thailand, after its rescue by a local historian and a special fundraiser to erect it at a Catholic-run charity in the Thai capital. ‘St Patrick of Gortletteragh’, originally commissioned for the village’s parish church…

Ruth McGee with Fr Gabriel Harty OP and Brid Galligan, Principal of St Malachy's Girls' National School. Sixth-class student Ruth wrote to Pope Francis to praise the 95-year-old school chaplain Fr Harty, and was amazed last week to receive a letter from the Vatican, saying the Pope wanted to thank her, and that he appreciated…