Renata is a Brazilian immigrant who completed her degree in journalism in 2023, and started to work as a multimedia journalist for The Irish Catholic on April 2024.
Looking forward to the Jubilee of Hope in 2025, Bishop Niall Coll of Ossory diocese says he thinks “It has a wonderful message that needs to be shared in the context of an Irish society which is presenting as increasingly materialistic, secular and anxious.” Bishop Coll added: ‘Many people seem to find life meaningless and…
Bishop Martin Hayes says he is looking forward to the Lay Pastoral Worker Training Programme in St Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth in 2025. “It will consist of a discernment period of six months, followed by a two-year part-time course,” he said. “We have now selected 19 people from throughout the diocese.” These lay people will…
According to Beaumont Hospital, Ireland has one of the highest rates of donations in the world: 20.3 donors pmp (per million population). The Irish Catholic invites you to learn the story of a Cavan man who had both of his lungs and one kidney transplanted. David Crosby is the oldest of five children. When he…
Bishop of Killaloe Fintan Monahan is looking forward to the Jubilee 2025. “The whole Year of Hope gives me a great sense of joy and happiness. It is a wonderful theme to have and to develop with,” he said. The Diocese of Killaloe is trying to identify pilgrimage sites around the diocese and “encouraging pilgrims…
When a woman decides to become a nun, they leave behind old traditions and practices and open themselves for a new life with their religious order, which becomes their new family. That include Christmas traditions. As every family has their own Christmas customs, with the nuns that is not different. The Irish Catholic talked to…
Looking back at the Kilmore Diocese in 2024, Bishop Martin Hayes said they had significant events. “We had our pilgrimage to Lourdes. One of the features of it was that we brought some young people.” The young people who went on that pilgrimage raised the money to go, the bishop said. “They raised over 17,500…
Christmas is a time for traditions. Some families like to gather at the grandparents every year for a big dinner with the whole extended family, while others will watch together the same movie every year. Some families will pray together a certain number of evenings before Christmas, and others will help in charity events every…
The reopening ceremony of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris happened last Saturday evening, December 7, five years after a fire destroyed part of the building. The Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, Archbishop Eamon Martin attended the reopening Mass. Archbishop Martin was invited by Archbishop Laurent Ulrich, Archbishop of Paris, to represent the bishops…
The Brazilian community in Waterford (Católicos de Waterford) gathered for a Triduum and a procession for Our Lady from December 5-8. The event, a version of the Our Lady Aparecida procession which happens in Dublin annually, brought prayer and hymns to the streets of Waterford. The request for the event, said Scarleth Tavares, one of…
Ennis Parish celebrated the centenary of two parishioners last weekend. Mary Cahir was born on December 8, 1924, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and Mary Galvin was born on December 6 in the same year. They are both still active Mass goers. Fr Tom Ryan PP said the parish has “quite [a] number of…