Lay people will increasingly be asked to step up to the plate in one of Ireland’s largest diocese as priest numbers are expected to fall to dramatically. The Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Down and Connor will say this Sunday that “very soon” it’s likely the celebration of a Requiem Mass will “no longer…
A prominent Belfast-based priest has rejected attempts to turn an open letter he signed on the issue of Brexit into a push for abortion in the North. Passionist Fr Gary Donegan was one of 200 leading figures in the broader nationalist community who signed the letter to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar expressing “frustration and growing concern…
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