Pro-life bell blessed by Pope resounds in Ecuador A bell forged in Poland and blessed by Pope Francis has arrived in Ecuador, where it will ring out in honour of unborn children. The bell, known as the “Voice of the Unborn”, was welcomed into the Cathedral of St Peter the Apostle in Guayaquil, Ecuador’s chief…
Donegal County Council has recently ratified a move to the design and tender stage of a plan to build a €30 million extension on the grounds of St Eunan’s College in Letterkenny. The letter sent last week to the school by the council confirmed the Council’s intention to proceed with the project while outlining the…
As the dust began to settle last year on the Vatican’s troubled $400 million dollar land deal in London, and as the colossal dimensions of the failure it represents became clear, Pope Francis was determined to put someone on trial, including his former chief of staff, Italian Cardinal Becciu, along with nine other defendants. Yet,…
Man tests positive for Covid for 14 months straight When Muzaffer Kayasan first caught Covid-19, he thought he was destined to die, as he was already suffering from leukaemia. Fourteen months and 78 straight positive tests later, he is still alive – and still battling to shake off the infection. Mr Kayasan, 56, has Turkey’s…
Saturday saw the return of a staple event in the calendars of many young Catholics around Ireland: The Youth 2000 Valentine’s Ball. The ball, which took place in the Armagh City Hotel, was preceded by Mass at St Patrick’s Cathedral, celebrated by Auxiliary Bishop of Armagh Bishop Michael Router. Speaking to The Irish Catholic newspaper,…
Sometimes it takes an outsider to help you to see the beauty and depth of something you have never fully appreciated. I suspect this true for many of us, myself no exception, regarding the celebration of the Eucharist in our churches. David P. Gushee, an Evangelical, recently published a book entitled After Evangelicalism, within which…
Catholics from Mary Mother of Divine Shepherd Mulajje Parish in central Uganda are worried about losing their church and all properties after one of the families that donated the land to the church years ago began to repossess it. The parish is one among hundreds of Catholic churches in the East African country that continue…
The Sunday Gospel On this Sunday we have the third extract from the great sermon on the plain where Jesus sets out the ideals of Christian life. Last Sunday we reflected on the ideal of being forgiving and compassionate like our Father in heaven. The ideal is beyond human nature unaided, but with the supernatural…
Fears, Phobias and Fantasies: Understanding mental health and mental illness by Prof. Patricia Casey (Currach Books, €22.99) This is an excellent and humane book written by a leading psychiatrist, now professor emeritus of psychiatry at University College Dublin (UCD) and active as a consultant psychiatrist. It is aimed at patients and their families, those who…
Medical Matters Nearly one in five people or just over 1.25 million have tested PCR positive for Covid in Ireland since the pandemic began. With hundreds of thousands more infected but not officially tested the proportion of the population that have escaped Covid may be a lot smaller than many would have anticipated. The death…
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