Msgr James Carroll blessed six reliquaries containing small bone fragments of St Oliver Plunkett in a ceremony in St Peter’s Church, West Street, Drogheda. The reliquaries were presented to members of the local council of the Knights of St Columbanus who will bring them to over 50 venues during the forthcoming festival of St Oliver…

Cork’s annual Eucharistic Procession, now in its 90th year, will take place on June 7. Participants will start assembling in the grounds of the North Cathedral at 2.30pm to leave at 3pm and process to Daunt’s Square. An invitation has been offered to the various Catholic groups to walk in the procession. The rosary will…

The annual ‘Gone But Not Forgotten’ bikers memorial Mass was celebrated in the Sacred Heart Church, Clones, Co. Monaghan. A number of motorbikes, including a Honda CBR 600 race bike belonging to Richard Briton who died 10 years ago, were on display on the altar. A large number of bikers and their families from across…

Members of the Children’s Rosary, a global prayer group movement, will boost the numbers taking part in the sixth annual Global Rosary for Priests on June 12. The initiative follows an invitation from Worldpriest founder Marion Mulhall to US-based Blythe Kaufman, founder of the Children’s Rosary. Members of the group meet regularly to pray the…

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Tributes have been paid to broadcasting legend Bill O’Herlihy, a daily Massgoer who had described himself as a “committed Catholic”. The well-known Cork man, who retired as RTE’s main sports presenter last summer after almost half a century, died this week aged 76. Fr Frank Herron, Administrator of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Foxrock, where…

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin celebrated the gifts the local church has enjoyed from the thousands of people who have come to live in Dublin in recent years at the annual the Festival of People's Mass in St Mary's Pro-Cathedral on Sunday evening. Larisa Hansoca, Nicola Varvari, Ana Mihalut and Paul Blaj from Romania are pictured at…

A Pilgrim prays to Archbishop Oscar Romero during beatification Mass in the Divine Saviour of the World square in San Salvador. Photo: CNS

British star Jude Law has been cast as a fictional young American Pope for a new television series, directed by Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino. The actor will play Italian-American Lenny Belardo, a conservative “recruited by a Vatican fed up with liberals” who is thrust into the papacy as Pope Pius XIII, and must grapple with…