Youth Space Youth 2000 has been one of the main faith-building events that I have been to, writes Ruairí Ben McClintock Growing up my mother and father always encouraged me to love God. My mother used to read to us children’s Bible stories and my father prayed with us every night. Every Sunday we’d…
Medical Matters Skin is the largest organ in the human body and its visible appearance often reflects on our health and vitality. If eyes are the window to our souls, so too skin can mirror something deeper about our general health. We subject our skin to sun, rain, wind, deodorants and perfumes and probably…
Notebook Fr Bernard Healy At the start of November this year, various Facebook friends began posting images and messages stating that with Hallowe’en behind us, now was the time for Christmas songs and decorations. Christmas seems to start earlier each year, but the current fad seems to be for the Christmas Season to encompass…
Tackling rural isolation seen as key challenge A proposal that would see people allowed to arm themselves for protection from intruders would be a sign that the country has “lost its soul”, a leading priest-campaigner for rural Ireland has warned. Fr Harry Bohan has also appealed to parishioners to work to tackle the scourge…
People should write to Pope Francis to encourage him to visit the tomb of Matt Talbot when he comes to Dublin next year, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has said. Speaking in Maynooth at a conference on priestly formation, Archbishop Martin spoke of how priests come from the “holy people of God”, a term the Pope regularly…
Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, concelebrates the beatification Mass of Irish-American friar Blessed Solanus Casey on Saturday at Ford Field in Detroit. At least 60,000 attended the beatification of the Capuchin Franciscan priest. Photo: CNS/Jeff Kowalsky.
Church leaders have called on paramilitaries in the North to stop their violence for the sake of young people in the region. In a statement to coincide with the United Nations’ Universal Children’s Day, the clergy warned that the vision of the Peace Process was being lost in the face of continued violence and intimidation.…
Sinn Féin’s new party line on abortion does not reflect the views of ordinary voters, the Sinn Féin MP for Mid-Ulster has said. Francie Molloy, who succeeded Martin McGuinness as MP for the area in 2013, said the policy adopted at the party’s Ard Fheis was both “progressive and hysterical”, and cautioned against the triumphalism…
An Irish Franciscan priest who has been living in Zimbabwe for 50 years says he is hopeful for the future of the country. Fr Walter Gallahue, a parish priest in Harare, told The Irish Catholic that everything was “very peaceful” in the capital. “There is no sense of panic, we are waiting to see what will happen,” he…
Pope Francis is misunderstood by people both within the Church as well as by some outside it, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has said. Speaking in St Mary’s Church on Dublin’s Haddington Road as part of the Patrick Finn lecture series, Archbishop Martin said the Pope’s example “inspires some and…upsets others and leaves them insecure”. “Curiously, the…
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