Peter Korchak gathers wristbands for World Youth Day pilgrims to use in Krakow for trading with other WYD participants. Some two million Catholic youths are expected to join Pope Francis in Poland for the July 26-31 faith festival. See Page 3. Photo: CNS
Dublin’s Simon community has offered a guarded welcome for the Government’s action plan on housing and homelessness. Reacting to the unveiling of Rebuilding Ireland, a 114-page plan containing 84 recommendations on dealing with the housing crisis, a spokesperson for the body which works with homeless people said the document “looks promising” but cautioned that more…
The planned Citizens’ Assembly on the Constitution is an exercise in “political cowardice” according to Senator Michael McDowell. The former attorney general and one-time Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, said in the Seanad that he was “totally opposed” to the establishment of a citizens’ assembly, describing it as “demeaning in a…
Pope’s advisor insists shift in attitude is real
Bishop Denis Nulty of Kildare & Leighlin has called for a “re-imagining” of the Pledge to reflect the dangers posed to Irish youth from sports enhancing drugs in addition to alcohol. Addressing members of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association of the Sacred Heart during their annual pilgrimage to Knock, Bishop Nulty referred to Ireland’s continuing…
Any “whittling down” of religious education in Catholic schools would be “unacceptable”, a leading academic has said. Speaking to The Irish Catholic this week as the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) finalised changes to the time afforded to certain subjects in primary schools, Dr John Murray of Mater Dei Institute’s Department of Theology…
Staff reporter Dublin’s Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has been appointed to the Vatican’s new Secretariat for Communications. The body, consisting of six cardinals, seven bishops and three laypersons and headed by Msgr Dario Vigano’, is responsible for, among other things, coordinating the work of the Vatican website, Vatican Television Centre, Vatican Radio, the Vatican newspaper and…
Msgr Kieran Harrington, vicar of communications for the Diocese of Brooklyn, New York delivers the invocation during the first day of the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Both the Democratic and Republican parties in the US regularly invite clergy of different denominations to open their conventions. Photo: Tannen Maury
Staff reporters Hundreds of young Irish Catholics are packing their bags to make the pilgrimage to Poland to celebrate World Youth Day with Pope Francis. Two million young Catholics are expected to throng the city of Krakow for July 26-31. Some 1,600 young pilgrims are travelling in coming days, 10 times the number who went to…
Cathal Barry, Greg Daly and Paul Keenan There is a widespread variation between dioceses in Ireland with regard to their financial support for priests, a survey conducted by The Irish Catholic has revealed. Clergy in the Diocese of Clogher, which takes in parts of Monaghan, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Donegal and Louth, are among the best paid in the country, while their counterparts…
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