God gave all of us gifts that can be put to use in service of our parishes, writes Lorene Hanley Duquin Today, parishioners are expected to feel a true sense of ownership in their parish. That means looking at your parish as more than just a place where you go to Mass. A parish can…
Following a rampage of a radical Jewish gang in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City on the evening of January 26, the Assembly of the Catholic Ordinaries in the Holy Land called on political and religious authorities to bring civil and religious life in Jerusalem back to “greater serenity”. “This is only the latest…
The memory of 23-year-old Aidan McAnespie will surely live on in the annals of history: his life, and tragic death, have assumed considerable significance. A stone tablet has been erected on the spot at Auchnacloy, Co. Tyrone, which commemorates him, noting that he was ‘MURDERED at this spot by Crown Forces’ on February 21, 1988.…
The in-person Irish delegates to the European phase of the synod process will be joined by ten online delegates representing different lobby groups and evangelisation initiatives. Primate of All Ireland Archbishop Eamon Martin will lead a delegation of four to the assembly in the Czech capital Prague from February 5-12 including Nicola Brady, Chairperson of…
You might think, reading this column over the last few months, that religion is a common subject in movies. However, it isn’t very frequently, at least as a positive subject. There are plenty of films that attack it or misunderstand it; in the past there were films that made it into a kind of spectacle,…
A sacristan was killed and a priest wounded during a suspected terrorist attack January 25 on two Catholic churches in Spain. As reported by Europa Press, according to police sources, the sacristan of the Church of Our Lady of La Palma was murdered and the pastor of St Isidore Church was wounded. Both churches are…
Last June, in a boost to the pro-life movement worldwide, Roe v Wade was overturned by the US Supreme Court. As delighted right-to-life activists celebrated, much of the media commentary in Ireland expressed dismay and warned that women would suffer if abortion was made illegal. Those reports ignored the reality on the ground in the United…
L’Arche has released an independent report on its founder Jean Vanier, which finds that he belonged to a “sectarian group” with “distorted pseudo-mystical beliefs”. The independent commission established by L’Arche International found that at least 25 women “experienced sexual contact with Vanier which was part of a continuum of confusion, control and abuse” between 1950…
We are moving towards a society that will no longer be liberal in any true sense, writes David Quinn Enoch Burke must by now be the most famous teacher in Ireland, and possibly in the history of the Irish State. Mr Burke has been in the news for weeks due to his showdown with his…
St Thomas Aquinas’ skull has arrived at the Dominican Convent of Toulouse in France, where it’s been placed in a new reliquary as the 700th anniversary of his canonisation is celebrated by the Church. The new reliquary was created by Augustin Frison-Roche and was blessed during a Mass on January 27. The Dominican order shared…
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