Catholic schools need an AI conscience check, not just a usage policy Dear Editor, The Irish Catholic has repeatedly framed AI as a question about the human person, not just a new classroom tool. Its coverage of Magnifica Humanitas has stressed when educators should say no to AI, while another essay asked who remains responsible…
Pope Leo XIV highlighted religious women’s and men’s work making “the mission and mystery of the Church visible in our world.” “All Christians are called to be builders of Christ’s communion, formed in a synodal Church in which everyone cooperates in the same mission according to their own charism and ministry,” he said during the Leadership…
Tributes have been paid to Augustinian priest and biblical scholar Fr Kieran O’Mahony OSA, who died peacefully at Our Lady’s Hospice, Harold’s Cross, on August 18. Fr O’Mahony was widely known for his work in Scripture and for helping Catholics engage more deeply with the Bible through teaching, preaching and writing. Only weeks before his…
The pioneer bishop of Nigeria’s Diocese of Katsina said the young diocese is building its future around the vision of becoming a “creative minority,” seeking to transform society through education, faith formation, interreligious dialogue, and witness rather than being discouraged by its small Catholic population. Speaking to ACI Africa, the sister service of EWTN News in Africa, at the…
Pope Leo XIV appealed for peace in Ukraine on Sunday, August 9, noting “painful reports” of innocent people killed and injured in both Ukraine and Russia. “Tragic incidents continue,” Pope Leo said, “indeed, they are multiplying, resulting in ever-increasing civilian casualties, including children.” The latest reports say Russian attacks on energy infrastructure and civilian-populated areas…
A Catholic community in India’s West Bengal state is facing down intense intimidation, including demands that Claretian missionaries ministering to the faithful in Nazat village abandon their work and instruct their people to return to their ancestral religions. The incidents follow a string of violent attacks on Christians and churches in the eastern Indian state…
A Catholic parish in New York has suffered what the Diocese of Brooklyn says is the fourth incident of vandalism in two years after a man destroyed a statue of the Blessed Mother in an early-morning attack. The destructive episode at St Rita Roman Catholic Church in the neighbourhood of Long Island City in Queens…
It is up to the Ukrainians to decide their course of action, and us to support them Dear Editor In a thoughtful piece on Catholic ‘just war’ principles, Breda O’Brien wrote that an entirely just war might never have been fought. And she finds fault even with some aspects of Ukraine’s valiant defence against Russia’s…
I gladly and gratefully take the floor to share some reflections on what has begun to unfold throughout the Church during these years of the synodal journey. The fact that, during this consistory, the theme of synodality has been broached so extensively is a clear confirmation not only that an increasing number of people are…
The loneliness of the long-distance believer Dear Editor, Like so many of my friends, I find myself alone at weekly Mass in our small local church. Lately my granddaughter, who has recently made her First Holy Communion joins me; ‘girl Friday’ to my ‘Robinson Crusoe’, both cast adrift on our island of obligation, striving to…