Mercy Sister in Nairobi says hunger is the worst in 40 years Children are being born disabled in Nairobi’s Mukuru slum because their mothers are going hungry during pregnancy, an Irish Mercy Sister has warned, as cuts to international aid push the community into its worst crisis in four decades. Sr Mary Killeen, who…
Delegates representing the Church in Ireland gathered to consider and vote on 35 proposals designed to guide the future of the Catholic Church in Ireland. The National Synod Assembly took place at the City North Hotel, Gormanston, Co. Meath, on Saturday, October 17, with over 300 nominated lay, clerical and religious voting representatives. Speaking to…
Fr Willie Doyle SJ offers young men a model of “healthy forms of masculinity”, Bishop Tom Deenihan has said, as the World War I chaplain’s cause for canonisation heads to Rome. Speaking to The Irish Catholic after the closing of the diocesan inquiry in The Cathedral of Christ the King in Mullingar on Sunday, the…
The Church in Ireland has become “much more open to accepting that we’re not a perfect Church”, the Primate of All Ireland has said, crediting Amoris Laetitia with helping the Church to accept the brokenness and fragility of marriage. Speaking to The Irish Catholic at the close of a week-long Vatican summit marking ten years since the exhortation, Archbishop…
More than 3,000 relics of saints and martyrs will go on public display at a Kilkenny church on All Saints’ Day, in an event inviting visitors to reflect on the lives of those who have gone before them in faith. St Canice’s Parish will make the collection available for veneration during and after its 11:30am…
