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Beloved GAA player was buried on Monday after one year battling with brain cancer. Caolan Finnegan, aged 20, was buried at St Patrick’s Church, Crossmaglen, Co Armagh. The young star was given a final lap around Oliver Plunkett Park pitch before the burial. Mr Finnegan scored one of the Crossmaglen’s goals in their Armagh Final…
St Patrick’s Parish, Belfast has been reduced to just one priest for the first time in 200 years. The parish not only attends the spiritual and pastoral needs of the community, but also serves a hospital, a primary school, several residential and care homes, and the new Ulster University Belfast Campus. The large scale building…
Five years after the Amazon Synod, members of the region’s Church gathered in Manaus, Brazil, in order to discuss ways to implement the changes suggested in 2019 during the meeting in Rome. The need to increase the women’s participation in ecclesial life and alternatives for the Church’s financial challenges in the Amazon were among the…
A European watchdog has warned of serious anti-Christian violence in Europe and called on governments to protect converts from Islam in particular. The Vienna-based Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDAC Europe) has reported an increase in anti-Christian hate crimes by 44% on the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Violence Based…
Concern Worldwide is responding to deadly floods in Bangladesh in which at least 18 people have been killed and millions of others stranded. The Irish organisation is providing food, oral rehydration solution, water purification tablets, sanitary pads, candles and matches to approximately 35,000 people in Nohakhali district, one of the worst affected districts. “These floods…
Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, this week defended a new Ukrainian law that aims to limit the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church in the country because of its support for Vladimir Putin’s invasion and regime. Shevchuk, who has spoken out frequently in Ukraine’s defence since the start of the war, said Russia…
The release by the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life of a new booklet on end-of-life issues ‘Small Lexicon on End of Life’ comes at a time when the final stages of life are subject to increasing scrutiny – both in Ireland and abroad. The booklet continues to offer a clear “no” to euthanasia and assisted…
Letter of the week Reform broken system to save children Dear Editor, A Tribunal of Inquiry into the State and ministerial neglect of children under the care of Tusla may not be enough [The Irish Catholic – August 22, 2024], a complete rehaul of Tusla is in order and the General Election can’t come fast…
Archbishops, bishops, nuncios, priests and laypeople filled St Peter’s Cathedral in Belfast to join Archbishop Noël’s family in saying a last farewell to the Monaghan man who was Bishop Emeritus of Down and Connor and Nuncio to the European Union. In his homily Bishop Alan McGuckian recalled working with Bishop Noël. “His dream for the…