The priest of Westport parish in Co. Mayo has said there was a “very strong spiritual element” on the day broadcaster Charlie Bird ascended Croagh Patrick as part of his charity fundraising campaign on Saturday. Fr Charlie McDonnell said he was with Mr Bird when he heard the news his campaign had raised €2 million,…
German Cardinal Reinhard Marx said in an interview published on last week that the Catechism of the Catholic Church is “not set in stone” and “one is also allowed to doubt what it says.” The cardinal made the comments in a seven-page spread in the March 31 edition of the weekly current affairs magazine Stern, reported CNA Deutsch. Cardinal…
The View Pope Francis hates it. Thomas Aquinas dedicated a section of the Summa Theologica to it, analysing all the different ways we can indulge in it. Robin Dunbar, the primatologist and anthropologist, judged it to be “the core of human social relationships, indeed of society itself. Without [it], there would be no society”. We…
A group of young Catholic musicians and a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal have collaborated to produce a praise and worship album. Speaking to The Irish Catholic newspaper, singer Ruth Hogan said they had a desire to create their own Irish praise and worship sounds, as much of the current offering comes from America or…
A former Vatican official facing charges of extortion and abuse of office related to a controversial London property deal said he was acting under obedience in his role and made no decisions without approval from his direct superior, Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra. Msgr Mauro Carlino, who served as secretary to then-Archbishop Angelo Becciu, when he…
How can a Churchman stand by Vladimir Putin and justify his utterly brutal attack on Ukraine? But the Russian ‘pope’, Patriarch Kirill has made it clear that he is fully aligned with Mr Putin and his ideological position – that Kyiv is essentially a part of Russia, in culture, religion and tradition. “It is my…
An Arab Christian police officer was one of five killed by a Palestinian gunman in a suburb of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv March 29. The attack took place that evening in Bnei Brak, one of the country’s most populous ultra-Orthodox Jewish areas. One of those killed was Christian police officer Amir Khoury, a…
Reports suggest large numbers of people continue to leave their jobs in search of greener pastures, so how does one find them, asks Jason Osborne Research throughout the pandemic and since those uncertain days informs us that millions of people across the world have upped and left their jobs, often in pursuit of a better opportunity…
A local community in Gougane Barra has taken issue with the proposed nearby building of Cork’s biggest wind turbines, close to the picturesque St Finbarr’s Oratory. An Bord Pleanála gave the controversial project a green light in February after it had been refused planning permission by Cork County Council because of the negative impact the…
Catholics must support a swift peaceful resolution in Ukraine to avoid further catastrophe, writes David Quinn It still seems hard to believe that a major war is taking place again on European soil. It is not the first since the Second World War, of course. Long-running conflicts took place when Yugoslavia broke up in the…
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