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No room for complacency on safeguarding: Primate

First national safeguarding conference hosted by the National Board marks a significant milestone on the safeguarding journey: Archbishop Eamon Martin.

2015.02.28.

Community rallies to dress First Communicants

'Pop up' shop in Cork will dress hundreds of children this Sunday for free.

2015.02.28.

Students hit the high notes for Emmanuel & Seinn

Emmanuel and Seinn concerts draw over 3,000 secondary school students together for Church music performances.

2015.02.28.

Liam Lawton’s mission: get congregations singing 

Sacred music composer and singer calls for resources to be put into contemporary Christian music.

2015.02.27.

Priests influential in bishops selection: Nuncio

“There is no group that is more influential in the process than priests. They are even more influential than bishops."

2015.02.27.

Christians in Syria feel abandoned by world

ISIS has begun killing some of the 150 Christians taken hostage from villages in northeast Syria.

2015.02.27.

PLC raps Amnesty over abortion law criticism

"Amnesty International was once an organisation that you could depend on to defend human rights."

2015.02.26.

Portlaoise Novena marks parish church’s 50 years

Host of speakers and musicians lined up including Fr Liam Lawton and Fr Ray Kelly.

2015.02.26.

‘Ireland needs renewed sense of national purpose’

Archbishop of Dublin warns that healthy politics cannot be built on a culture of spin or a policy of just being against something.

2015.02.26.

Child poverty & homelessness worse than ever

The latest Department of Environment figures reveal 865 children living in hostels, B&Bs and hotels.

2015.02.25.

70 new catechumens: “discreet signs of hope”

There are many examples of renewal in the Church in Ireland today Archbishop of Dublin suggests.

2015.02.25.

Church seeks accommodation of religious belief

“Our laws as they stand are having an unjust and disproportionate impact on those of religious faith" - Bishop Treanor.

2015.02.25.

Family challenges leave couples reluctant to marry

Address by Bishop Kevin Doran on ‘The Synod on the Family and its Implications for our Understanding of Marriage’.

2015.02.24.

Churches can’t be used for campaign literature

Parishes in Dublin are told that every effort should be made to ensure that their churches are not used for the dissemination of campaign literature from any source.

2015.02.24.

Kidnapped Jesuit is freed in Afghanistan

Indian PM Narendra Modi expresses delight at the release of Fr Alexis Prem Kumar who was kidnapped at gunpoint by suspected Taliban militants on 2 June 2014.

2015.02.24.

Archbishop concerned over levels of violence

"A society which loses a sense of God’s mercy slips into a climate of negativity and violence, of harshness and vindictiveness.”

2015.02.23.

Egyptian martyrs strengthen Mid East Christians

The resolve of Christians in Egypt has been strengthened by ISIS' murder of 21 Christians in Libya according to Coptic Catholic Bishop Youssef Aboul-Kheir of Sohag.

2015.02.23.

Pope warns criminals against using religion

External forms of piety without “a real conversion are not enough to be considered in communion with Christ and his Church”.

2015.02.23.

Archbishops honour unique holiness of Fr Sullivan

Irish Jesuit convert whom Pope Francis declared Venerable last November draws Christian Churches together in remembrance.

2015.02.22.

New Sister professed for Dominicans in Cabra

"Our freedom is not license but has within it the demands and choice of personal and communal responsibility.”

2015.02.22.

Award for priest who serves death row inmates

Fr Pat Murphy, a member St Patrick's Missionary Society in Kilteegan, is to be honoured for his ministry with inmates at Kirikiri maximum security prison in Lagos.

2015.02.22.

“Everyone has a role to play in climate justice”

Government should strengthen Climate Action Bill in line with recommendations of the Joint Committee of the Environment.

2015.02.21.

Poll finding on adoption challenges Govt’s bill

Overwhelming choice for Irish people when a child is being placed for adoption is for child to be placed with a man and a woman.

2015.02.21.

Dialogue makes people stronger – Imam

Christians and Muslims from Ireland and the UK meet to build bridges of understanding at Focolare gathering on dialogue.

2015.02.21.

Government urged to give lead on climate change

Social Justice Ireland calls on the Coalition to ensure its policies on climate change are coherent.

2015.02.20.

End ‘globalisation of indifference’ Pope appeals

Lenten message calls believers to a new conversion - to believe in and live the communion of saints, to reach out to the poor and those 'far away'.

2015.02.20.

Drug companies must end excessive focus on profit

Vatican urges “creative and innovative approach” to intellectual property in order to ensure medicines get to the people who need them.

2015.02.20.

Trócaire Lenten box goes digital via mobile app

New app is suitable for mobile phones, tablets and other electronic devices and is simple to use for active mobile phone users.

2015.02.19.

Tribute to Communion and Liberation founder

Archbishop of Dublin presides at Mass to mark tenth anniversary of Don Luigi Giussani’s death and 60th anniversary of the founding of his movement.

2015.02.19.

Hollywood star appointed ambassador for St Pio

"Padre Pio is one of the most acclaimed saints of the Holy Church and he himself served in the Italian Military Forces for a short period of time" - actor Joe Mantegna.

2015.02.19.
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