The Church in Ireland will continue to shrink, the new Bishop of Galway has predicted, but with the help of young people engaging with the synodal process can be renewed afresh. Bishop Michael Duignan was speaking as he took on the leadership of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora in addition to remaining as Bishop of Clonfert.…
Law firm Arthur Cox has announced it will team up with Catholic charity L’Arche Belfast, which will see employees engaging in volunteering and fundraising initiatives. Brian Burns, L’Arche Belfast opportunities leader, said the charity is “so pleased” and looking forward to the partnership. “We are so pleased that Arthur Cox has chosen us as their…
There has been an increase in the number of women expressing an interest in becoming nuns and joining contemplative orders, according to the director of Vocations Ireland. Despite a downward trend in vocations to religious life in Ireland over the past few decades, Margaret Cartwright told The Irish Catholic recently in Ireland “there is an…
An Taoiseach Micheál Martin praised the Presentation Sisters for continuing the legacy of Nano Nagle, after Nano Nagle Place won the Council of Europe Museum prize 2022. Mr Martin paid tribute to the whole team behind the Nano Nagle Place facility in Cork, singling out the Presentation Sisters “who continue to fulfil Nano Nagle’s mission…
Staff reporter The Pro-Life Campaign have criticised the inclusion of the Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill on the Government’s legislative programme. The bill proposes “to ensure safe access” to premises at which abortions may take place, according to the programme released Tuesday April 26. This would create areas around abortion facilities that…
Maynooth pulled out the stops last week for a timely and engaging conference on the future of Christian thinking. The conference brought together some of the best-known philosophers of religion in the English-speaking world for three intensive days of talks and conversation. Beginning Thursday April 28 and finishing Saturday April 30, the talks included the…
The Archdiocese of Dublin will be auctioning hundreds of items from its former seminary in order to make space to house Ukrainian refugees. Taking place on May 10, there will be more than 600 lots from Clonliffe College in Drumcondra auctioned. Viewing on site is currently taking place and will continue until Monday, May 9.…
A Catholic couple stand by their decision to travel over 70km to attend Mass during lockdown, saying they would rather go to jail than pay a €300 fine. Jim Ryan (64) and his wife Ann (59) were summoned to court earlier this month for exceeding the 5km limit on Palm Sunday last year. The couple…
Vocational Supplement We Franciscans are a Fraternity in Mission, inspired by the life of St. Francis to bring the Gospel of Joy and Grace to the world. We devote our lives to the search for God in a fraternal life of prayer, simplicity of life and service to others. At the heart of Francis’ Gospel…
The US Supreme Court will vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that legalised abortion nationwide, according to draft opinion cited in a news report released Monday evening. “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. writes in the purported 98-page draft document, obtained by Politico, which…
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