Faith ‘under attack from modernity’ The Christian Faith is “under attack from modernity”, a Nigerian bishop has said while celebrating Mass at an Irish holy well. Bishop Charles Hammawa, Bishop of Jalingo Diocese in Nigeria, encouraged the Irish Faithful to pass on the faith of their fathers during Mass at St Feichin’s well in Abbey…
An Irish Presentation Sister is the subject of a documentary – Sister India – produced by Irish film-maker, Myles O’Reilly. Sr Loreto, born Peg Houlihan near Carrick-on-Suir in Co. Tipperary in 1927, has spent 70 years teaching in India where she recently celebrated her 91st birthday. The film is currently being screened at a number…
Canon Kieran Waldron, diocesan archivist of Tuam Archdiocese, President Michael D. Higgins and Bishop Fintan Monahan celebrate Mr Higgin’s decision to grant a presidential pardon for Maolra Seoighe who was unjustly convicted and hanged in 1882 in connection with the Mám Trasna murders that occurred earlier that year.
Sr Gabriel and Sr Paul from Galway’s Poor Clare Sisters with ‘Sr Frosty’, briefly the newest member of the community. Photo: Kristina Vykukalova
Richard Fitzgerald has spent a lifetime looking through his camera lens with a dedicated eye. His latest book is Dark Ireland: Images of a lost world. Richard says: “the photographs in this book happened because of my upbringing in rural Ireland; it is a world I knew intimately before emigration was forced upon me. In the years following my departure, I became…
Papal Nuncio to Ireland, Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okkolo, pictured at St Eugene’s Cathedral in Derry during a ceremony in which he gave a blessing to babies and children from the parish. Photo: Stephen Latimer
Sacristan Birdie McLoughlin, Fr Paddy Mooney PP, and Pastoral Council members Breda Keaveney and Padraic Keady pose outside their church to publicise their ‘Drive Thru’ Ashes initiative from 8 am – 9.30 am at Glenamuddy Church on Ash Wednesday, February 14. It aims to facilitate people who are sick, advanced in years, or with very…
First year students from Coláiste Pobail Bheanntraí (Bantry Community College) were all smiles after making St Brigid’s crosses to mark her feast day last week.
Pope Francis has recognised the martyrdom of a bishop, seven trappist monks and 11 other religious men and women killed by extremists in Algeria in the 1990s. The 19 men and women died between 1993 and 1996, while Algeria was locked in a 10-year-long armed conflict between government forces and Islamist rebel groups; the conflict…
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