Fermanagh-based priest Fr Joe McVeigh has said that the promotion of Stephen Fulton to grand master in the Orange Order shows “bad form” as the country grapples with violence against women and girls. The appointment of Mr Fulton as district master of Cookstown generated outrage after it emerged that he has a conviction for killing…
American actor Shia LaBeouf has appeared in a viral clip in which he speaks about how there aren’t enough joyful depictions of Christ on the cross. “You know, the story of Christ is that God became man for our betterment,” Mr LaBeouf, 36, says in the clip, continuing, “so that means he is the ultimate…
It’s with good reason that Pope Benedict XVI drew attention to the story of St Josephine Bakhita in his encyclical, Spe Salvi (In Hope we Were Saved), for her’s is a story of the “hope that ensues from a real encounter with this God,” as the late pope put it in that same encyclical. Born…
For many of us growing up, there wasn’t much more to Lent than a certain dourness and less chocolate. I remember in school the main focus was, ‘What are you going to be giving up?’ The answers were generally things that it would be a nuisance to do without, but things that weren’t too great…
The Laudate Festival was celebrated for the fifth time in Dublin archdiocese this week. A diocesan celebration of Catholic primary schools that brings children, schools communities, families and parishes together to praise God and take time for reflection, a choir of hundreds of children from 25 Catholic primary schools in the archdiocese led singing as…
Catholic schools are not interested in seeing radical gender ideology forced onto pupils, according to a leading voice in Catholic education in Ireland. Speaking on The Week that Really Was podcast, CEO of the Catholic Education Partnership, Alan Hynes, said that with regard to gender theory “we have to avoid teaching as fact stuff that…
Saint Brigid is, perhaps unexpectedly, at the forefront of the public’s mind, what with her feast day becoming the occasion of a public holiday this year. However, many have chosen to focus instead on the pre-Christian goddess of the same name – some going so far as to say that there was no historical St…
Sometimes when chatting with those of different denominations, or even with those of no faith at all, Catholics are asked why they confess their sins to a priest. Confessing sins directly to God is usually understood easily enough, but something about sharing our sins with another person in order to receive forgiveness is puzzling to…
Loreto Sister Orla Treacy from Co. Wicklow is currently accompanying 60 students and pilgrims on a 405km pilgrimage from the diocese of Rumbek to South Sudan’s capital, Juba for the Pope’s upcoming ecumenical visit. Pope Francis is scheduled to make an ecumenical pilgrimage to Juba, South Sudan, February 3-5 with Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury and…
A man in Mexico was on the tail end of heavenly justice after he was injured following a fall on to the sword of a St Michael statue he was allegedly trying to steal in the early hours of the morning, January 14. Local media reports that Carlos Alonso (32) went to Christ the King…