The Government’s plans to tackle homelessness do not do enough to address the issue of family homelessness, a leading campaigner has said. Speaking at the Focus Ireland Conference, the charity’s founder Sr Stanislaus Kennedy said ‘Rebuilding Ireland’, the Government’s action plan on homelessness and housing, is “welcome and ambitious”, but insufficiently ambitious for the needs…

Irish Capuchin archivist Dr Brian Kirby and Dublin diocesan archivist Noelle Dowling point out historical documents to Archbishop Diarmuid Martin at the September 24 launch of ‘Ministry, Advocacy and Compassion – The Catholic Church and 1916’, an exhibition at St Kevin’s Chapel in Dublin’s pro-cathedral.

The installation of Fr Fintan Monahan as Bishop of Killaloe could hardly have been a more inclusive affair, and that’s how Ireland’s newest bishop wanted it – a big believer in episcopal consultation, he made it clear in advance of his ordination Mass that he wanted his ceremonial installation as bishop to draw together all…

Three Catholic priests have been murdered in Mexico in the space of one week. The three died in two separate incidents after they were kidnapped by unknown persons from their homes. In the first incident, on September 19, Frs Alejo Nabor Jimenez Juarez and Jose Alfredo Juarez de la Cruz were abducted from their parish…

The Church has a key role to play in supporting rural life, Ireland’s newest bishop has said. Speaking to The Irish Catholic, Killaloe’s Bishop Fintan Monahan, who was ordained in Ennis’s Cathedral of Ss Peter and Paul on Sunday, September 25, said that among his priorities as a new bishop would be doing whatever he…

Internet giants ordered to block gender-abortion ads in India Three leading internet search engine companies have been ordered by India’s Supreme Court to block ads promoting sex-selective abortions. In a move aimed at tackling India’s huge rate of abortions of females, regularly referred to as ‘gendercide’, the court order requires Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to block searches based on 22 key words, thereby…

Young pro-life activists holding balloons to mark how the Pro Life Campaign has calculated that upwards of 100,000 Irish people are alive today who might not be so were it not for the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. 

A Christian teenager in Pakistan has fallen foul of the country’s blasphemy law for ‘liking’ a Facebook post. Police in Punjab have confirmed that the unnamed youth had been detained following his like on what has been described as an inappropriate picture of the Kaaba, the central structure in Mecca and site of the annual…

A priest of the North Belfast parish of Ardoyne has welcomed moves to end the Twaddell Avenue stand-off that has seen a loyalist protest camp maintained in the community for over two years. Speaking to The Irish Catholic this week as he prepared to depart Holy Cross parish, Fr Gary Donegan expressed his joy that…

Towards the end of Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis’ document on the family, the Pontiff writes that when priests have to make judgments in concrete cases such as pastoral care of divorced and civilly remarried Catholics, they are to do so “according to the teaching of the Church and the guidelines of the bishop”. One wonders if…