Colm Fitzpatrick and Chai Brady Tributes are pouring in after a Laois-based priest died yesterday in a “tragic accident” involving his car. Fr John Cummins (52) of Abbeyleix, Co. Laois, died after an incident at his home on the Ballinakill Road yesterday at around 4.30pm. It is understood that no else was injured in…
Parishes and comunities need to take responsibility for tackling the country’s housing crisis, leading homelessness campaigners have said, calling for pressure to create political will around the issue. “Trying to get people out of homelessness while others are coming into it is like trying to empty bathwater with the taps full on,” Fr Peter McVerry…
The Irish Government should “be working tirelessly” to offer Asia Bibi asylum here according to a group who fight Christian persecution after another effort to prevent her release was batted away. Pakistan’s Supreme Court dismissed a petition seeking a review of the verdict that acquitted Ms Bibi of blasphemy on Tuesday. The National Director of…
A clarification from RTÉ accepting that there was no evidence for a claim that Bishop John McAreavey concealed child abuse has apparently disappeared from the station’s website. On Morning Ireland in August it was stated that the diocese had hidden documents concerning child sexual abuse from a child safeguarding audit led by the National board…
Irish missionaries have condemned the actions of an Islamist terrorist group who detonated two bombs at a cathedral in the Philippines killing 20 people and leaving over 100 injured. Fr Shay Cullen, who has worked in the Philippines for 50 years defending human rights under the PREDA Foundation, said he was “shocked”. Speaking to The…
You can change your mind about a subject not just once, but several times. The subject over which I have vacillated in the course of my lifetime is that of censorship. As a young person, I was vehemently against censorship, largely because both movies and books were subject to sometimes quite draconian censorship: either the…
Political leaders across Ireland and Britain need to work together to show leadership around Brexit, Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh has said. Describing border communities as “worried” and “anxious” about the UK’s impending exit from the European Union, the Primate of All-Ireland told iCatholic.ie that they “are wondering what is going to happen, and when…
A Sligo-based priest has resorted to using bottled water for the Mass, following ongoing drinking restrictions on the local water supply. Fr John Glynn of Kilmatigue parish said that as a result of a boil notice imposed on customers supplied by Lough Talt in Sligo, he has turned to shop-bought bottled water for mixing with…
The decision to cease pilgrim Masses in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela for the next year is unlikely to affect numbers of pilgrims on the Camino, according to an Irish pilgrimage company. “I think the overall pilgrimage – the walk itself – is the experience. The pilgrim Mass at the end is the nice…
The View Pól Ó Muirí In the trench warfare that passes for Northern politics, the news that Fianna Fáil and the SDLP were talking of getting spliced caused some interest. Some change, any change, is enough to get people talking. Then it emerged that, no, the parties were not going to marry; they…
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