Pope Francis will celebrate the Catholic Church’s first World Day of the Poor this Sunday by celebrating a morning Mass with people in need and those who assist them. After Mass, he will offer lunch to 500 people in the Vatican audience hall. As the Year of Mercy was ending in November 2016, Pope Francis…
Youth Space Mairead Duffy reports on a trip to Medjugorje by Holy Trinity College, Cookstown and St Patrick’s Academy, Dungannon It has been said that when our Lady wants you to go to Medjugorje she will call you. She most certainly called each and every member of our group. It has also been…
Catholic Church officials have quelled speculation that the placement of a memorial for the 1987 Enniskillen bombing on Church ground was blocked because there was a poppy in the design. Monsignor Joseph McGuinness from the Diocese of Clogher said the memorial was a way to provide comfort and solace and bring the community together in…
Spirituality Jesus tells us that in the end we will be judged on how we dealt with the poor in our lives, but there are already dangers now, in this life, in not reaching out to the poor Here’s how Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy, teases out that danger: “I’ve come to believe that the…
Vatican: Pope Francis pats the head of a young relative of Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes during a private audience with the president at the Vatican.
Editor’s Comment News that the final Mass during the Pope’s expected visit next year will almost certainly be held in Dublin’s Phoenix Park is a welcome sign that Church leaders are thinking big. There has been precious little to be joyful about in the Church in Ireland in recent decades, and many people acutely…
Dublin: Pat Doyle, Eoghan Murphy and Peter McVerry from the Peter McVerry Trust at the charity’s Annual Report 2016 Launch last week.
Sligo: Shauna Greene, from Roscommon, receives the St Asicus Award for excellence in Religious Education, from Bishop Kevin Doran, on her graduation from St Angela’s College NUIG.
Poland: Nationalists light flares and carry flags to mark Poland’s 99th anniversary of independence in Warsaw, November 11.
I’ve long admired the media work of Michael Buerk, and his show The Moral Maze last Saturday on BBC Radio 4 was a most thorough, insightful, and civilised discussion – people were listening to each other! The topic was ‘moral progress’, especially in the light of current Westminster controversies. The format was unusual enough –…
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