To celebrate the Catholic Schools Week 2025, two schools in Doon, Co. Limerick organised a ‘Grandparents Day’. Pup ils from Doon C.B.S. Primary School and Doon Convent Primary School enjoyed a nice day with their families. The event took place on January 28 with the grandparents and children attending Mass celebrated by Fr Jimmy Donnelly…
Relentless Ministry – In a new series written by Priests, we will explore what most priests describe as “Relentless Ministry” and the challenges of being a priest in Ireland today Listening to priests around the country – and reading what some have written – there is a discernible sense of the ‘end of an era’…
The closure of Ireland’s biggest religious publisher and retailer hit devoted customers, staff and publishers hard, with many still wondering what will replace Veritas. Finding a dedicated source for books and booklets for church racks, along with perhaps Divine Word cards, inspirational sacramental supplies, book printing and all the plethora of seasonal material needed in…
It’s almost 300 years since the Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin penned his famous satirical essay, A Modest Proposal. The Anglo-Irish writer Jonathan Swift famously suggested the impoverished Irish, burdened by parenthood, need not go hungry. All they had to do was sell their own babies as food, like livestock, to wealthy English…
Theresa Bonapartis “We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father’s love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus”, St John Paul II. You can call me post-abortive. I am secure in both my healing and my relationship with God…
Victoria Cardiel / CNA The director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, confirmed on Sunday the disciplinary measures that were taken in 2019 against Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, archbishop emeritus of Lima, Peru, as a result of “the accusations [of sexual abuse] formulated against him”. Cipriani broke his silence on Friday, January 24,…
Just four years from now, these islands will mark the bicentenary of Catholic emancipation. We’re used to seeing it almost exclusively as an Irish celebration, but we shouldn’t forget that the act as well as a huge breakthrough for Catholics in Britain, was the first great measure of Westminster reform of the 19th Century. The…
As an athlete, being second choice is never easy. But when the man ahead of you is often regarded as the greatest of all time, the challenge becomes both humbling and motivating. Now retired, thirty-five-year-old Barry Hennessy had spent nearly a decade as part of Limerick’s golden generation, a key member of one of the…
It takes time, they say, to get used to an idea. It is now two or three months since I heard of the closure of Mount Melleray and like many others, I am still trying to get my head around it. The closure is, I suppose, inescapable but the final, definitive announcement of such an…
The parish archive of St Michael’s Parish, Gorey, Co. Wexford has reopened in St Patrick’s Presbytery on January 24. The project was initiated by Fr William (Billy) Flynn PP who completed it with the help of James Grannell and other parishioners. Fr Tommy Curran, who was baptised in 1945 in St Michael’s and celebrated his…
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