Good Friday at 25 Reconciliation was not an optional extra in the Gospel message and teaching of Jesus: it was a core value, writes Archbishop Eamon Martin Two commentators on a recent radio interview were discussing our historic peace agreement of April 10, 1998. I found it quite sad that throughout the entire discussion each used…
Easter is a reminder that Christians are called to be lights in an often dark and weary world, writes David Gibson “This is the night,” the Church sings out again and again in a poetic hymn dating far back in Christian history called the ‘Exsultet’. It is heard each year in Catholic Churches during the Easter Vigil…
Catholic third-level institution Carlow College, St Patrick’s must address its “overall sustainability”, as engagement on integration continues, Minister Simon Harris has said. The college is engaging in talks with South East Technological University (SETU) on potential incorporation, after the Department for Higher Education increased funding to help “stabilising the cash flow position while the college…
The President of the Legion of Mary, Mary Murphy, has become the first Irish person appointed to the Pontifical Marian Academy International (PAMI). Ms Murphy said it was a “privilege and an honour” to accept the role, announced to her by theologian William Thomas on behalf of PAMI. “I hope I can do it justice,”…
Pope Francis has prayed that Christians would experience the joy of Easter and allow Christ’s resurrection to be “the light that illumines the darkness and the gloom in which, all too often, our world finds itself enveloped”. “In Jesus the decisive passage of humanity has been made: the passage from death to life, from sin…
Armed bandits killed one person and kidnapped more than 100 others in a March 14 raid on a predominantly Catholic town in north-central Nigeria, according to a Catholic priest and other local sources. Fr Dauda Musa Bahago, a coordinator for the Justice, Development, and Peace Commission, a Catholic aid organisation, told CNA the attack took place…
Good Friday at 25 As we mark the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, we face new challenges but ones to which solutions can and should be found, writes Bishop Donal McKeown Like many people, I remember very well where I was when I heard about the Good Friday Agreement. Unlike most of my colleagues…
Good Friday at 25 As the deadline loomed, the sky wept thousands of raindrops, which fell like tears for thousands of victims writes, former BBC Political Correspondent Martina Purdy David Trimble did not live long enough to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. But shortly before he died, the former Ulster Unionist…
A Maltese Catholic priest who served as a chaplain in a London hospital received £10,000 (€11,396) in a settlement with the United Kingdom’s National Health Service after he alleged he was fired for expressing the Church’s teaching on homosexuality. Fr Patrick Pullicino, who is also a medical doctor, sued the London NHS Trust for harassment,…
Archbishop of Dublin Dermot Farrell has insisted that the Government must give assurance to Catholic parents that their right to choose a Catholic school for their children will be fully respected. He warned that parents’ right to choose a school with a Catholic ethos must be an integral part of the discussion around diversity of…