The Christian Brothers has made the Emmaus Retreat House in Swords, Co. Dublin available for the State to use during the coronavirus. “The State can use it in this time when we are dealing with a virus in whatever form they wish,” Bro. Dominic Sassi CFC told The Irish Catholic. Bro. Dominic also said he…
Vocations Supplement 2020 Heroic Callings during Troubled Times Chaplaincy, provision of food supplies and offering Church property as refuge are some of the ways religious orders in Ireland are reaching out to those need during the pandemic. This week The Irish Catholic asked three religious communities how they are coping, operating and helping society during…
Vocations Supplement 2020 Heroic Callings during Troubled Times Vocations Ireland is an association of vocation directors from religious orders, congregation and societies which provides training in ethical decision-making and assessment of candidates for religious life and priesthood. Over the last number of years, the association has sought to address the reality of life in…
The Bishop of Limerick has urged the public to work together to overcome the growing “restlessness” with Covid-19 restrictions for the “common good”. Dr Brendan Leahy used sport as an example in his weekly homily to explain how all of us has “an impact on each other” when it comes to life and death. “A…
Prof. Des O’Neill, a consultant geriatrician at Tallaght University Hospital in Dublin has claimed that what is playing out now in nursing homes with Covid-19 is the failure by successive minister for health to prioritise care for older citizens. He insists that blame for the failure to prevent the catastrophic spread of the virus in…
A 103-year-old nun has become the oldest person in Ireland to contract and survive the coronavirus. Sr Martha Hickey, an Infant Jesus sister, got the deadly virus over three weeks ago and, against the odds, has made a miraculous recovery. The centenarian, who has devoted over 80 years of her life to the Church, first…
Ireland’s Catholic universities have insisted that students will not suffer as a result of traditional examinations going virtual due to coronavirus. Prof. Peter Finn, Principal of St Mary’s University College in Belfast told The Irish Catholic that “there will be time-bound tests in disciplines such as mathematics completed at home by students, whilst in other…
A US-based Irish priest has hit back at President Donald Trump’s endorsement of a “bigoted anti-Catholic” pastor during Easter weekend. Fr Sean McManus, President of the Irish National Caucus, gave his disapproval of a service from Southern Baptist Evangelical pastor Robert James Jeffress Jr on Easter Sunday, which was approved by President Trump on Twitter.…
Fr Eamon Aylward SSCC believes online video conference platforms for streaming Mass, such as Zoom, are redefining the Eucharist. “I felt in my heart that it touched a spot and, out of this ‘evil’ (coronavirus) touching our world, is coming something good,” he told The Irish Catholic. “It is forcing us as a Church, and…
The story of how one Donegal priest’s resilence helped save his parish will be told in a new documentary airing on TG4 for Easter Sunday. Actor Stephen Rea narrates ‘Meitheal’, which explores how Gleann Colm Cille became a self-sufficient community with the support of Fr James Canon McDyer. The documentary looks at the parish’s struggle…