Dublin is coming alive with the joy of Christmas, and there’s no better way to begin the holiday celebrations than at The Moving Crib, now open at 42 Parnell Square, Dublin 1, running daily through 4 January 2026. Why not plan your Christmas outing today and share this cherished Dublin tradition with family and friends?…
The Catholic Medical Association of Ireland (CMAI) will host its 8th Annual Conference on Saturday, November 22, 2025 in the St Charles Centre, Mount Argus, Harold’s Cross. The speakers include Bishop Kevin Doran, Bishop of Elphin, Éamon Ó Cuív, former TD and Minister, Dr David Albert Jones, of St Mary’s University, and formerly of the…
The morning sun beats down on the city of Wau, South Sudan. In a modest classroom with yellow concrete walls at the Catholic Health Sciences Institute (CHSI), rows of smiling nursing students await the day’s lesson. They are studying anatomy and midwifery, gaining the skills to serve their country, where maternal mortality rates remain among…
I met Sr Miriam Duggan at the Divine Mercy Conference last February. Subsequently, I invited her to share something of her missionary story in Uganda and Kenya. She readily agreed and we were in touch regularly until the first of the articles was published in Missio Ireland’s summer newsletter, which was dispatched to our donors…
Memoirs of Fr. Dominic Pendanathu SDB, an Indian Salesian Missionary now working in Milford Salesian community Limerick Ireland Go, make disciples of all nations”, (Matthew 28:19) is the great call of Jesus that led the Salesian Congregation to India, where their mission began in 1906 with Fr. George Tomatis SDB and his companions. By 1922,…
Following the official announcement of a ceasefire in Gaza, Trócaire partner Caritas Jerusalem was among the first humanitarian organisations to respond, acting swiftly to meet the urgent needs of families and children across the Strip. Within days of the ceasefire, Caritas Jerusalem mobilised its medical teams in Gaza to deliver 10,000 cans of infant formula to families with newborns and young children…
The John Main Seminar 2025 comes to Balally Parish, uniting contemplation and service For more see the website here. From November 6-9, 2025, Balally Parish will host the John Main Seminar under the theme “Integral Christianity: The Vision of Celtic Christianity for the Crisis of the 21st Century.” The annual seminar is the most…
The Catholic Church has welcomed many kinds of popes in its long history — reformers, diplomats, visionaries, caretakers. With Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American successor of Peter, the Church appears to have received something rare: a shepherd intent on binding up wounds without tearing at old scars. His first hundred days offer every sign…
It is difficult to fathom how a government so eager to speak of “inclusion,” “equity,” and “reconciliation” continues to pursue a €26.2 million financial demand from the Legion of Mary — an organisation that, by every available measure, did more for Ireland’s most vulnerable women than the State itself ever dared to do. The Regina…
The Tuam Mother and Baby Home’s reporting needs balance Dear Editor, that was a very welcome article on Tuam Mother and Baby Home (The Irish Catholic, June 19). To date there has been mostly hostile overage and certainly no balance. You mentioned Brian Nugent, who has written, among other articles, a book on the Tuam…