South African police are investigating two Nigerians and an Israeli citizen
Month: October 2014
Celebrating 20 years of Mercy International
Sisters from the Mercy International Association greet President Michael D. Higgins who visited the Mercy International Association, Baggot Street, Dublin, to mark the 20th anniversary of the establishment of an international initiative to link Mercy global family which consists of 7,500 Sisters of Mercy, 5,000 associates and between a quarter and a half million partners…
Organ donors remembered in thanksgiving
All nations need to respond to terrorism, Vatican official tells UN
Cardinal urged governments to use their resources to prevent people from “becoming foreign terrorist fighters”
Numbers of Irish prisoners overseas surge
The number of ICPO clients imprisoned in England and Wales has nearly tripled
Tributes paid to Mercy sisters killed in car crash
Archbishop Eamon Martin has led tributes to the two Mercy sisters who died in a car accident this week. Sr Frances Forde and Sr Marie Duddy from Belfast were killed in a collision near Newry, Co. Down that also involved a PSNI vehicle. Archbishop Eamon said he was “very sorry” and that his “sympathies and…
Live streaming event for primary schools
The mission of the Mercy congregation and their founder Catherine McAuley will be the focus of a live internet broadcast from the Mercy International Centre in Baggot St, Dublin, on Friday. This will be the first of a number of monthly live streaming events aimed at primary schools as part of an initiative by iCatholic.…
Even as one baby clings to life, pro-choicers call for more abortion
We need to look behind the headlines to see the real story behind abortion polls, writes Cora Sherlock
Only an impoverished society turns its back on the contemplative life
Secular individualism is the biggest threat to religious life in Ireland, writes David Quinn
A Pope from the end of the earth
The remarkable Papacy of Pope Francis is being felt in Rome, writes Martin O’Brien