Analysis shows that Ireland would fail the EU’s blacklisting criteria
One vocations director voiced the challenge: “It is irresponsible to give up. I don’t know but perhaps all of these changes have to happen within ourselves and our own willingness to change and be opened to a new way of doing things.”
Over 10,000 women of great heart and right conscience have graduated from Immaculate Heart, and we are proud to count actress and humanitarian @meghanmarkle among them.
The 2017 concert sees the world premiere of ‘Beautiful Things’, an original composition by acclaimed Celtic harper Cormac de Barra of Dublin, which commemorates the apparition of Our Lady in Knock in 1879.
In a telegram sent to the Italian President Sergio Mattarella, Pope Francis said he was going to Myanmar to “encourage the small but fervent Catholic community and meet believers of diverse religions”.
The recording of the concert, presented by Liz Nolan, will be broadcast on Christmas Day at 1pm on RTÉ Lyric FM.
We are challenged to become Missionaries of Mercy and Ambassadors of Reconciliation
"Our city and our country have many urgent needs. I appeal to political leaders to put these needs first," Archbishop Diarmuid Martin
The admissions cap which prevents Catholic schools from allowing all Catholic pupils to attend, is considered discriminatory
Coláiste Chiaráin is a symbol of the reality that Church and State work in the same space and serve the same people, says Bishop Doran
Artists have until 20th December to enter vestment design competition.
The Columbans were “our heroes and we looked up to them, we admired their courage, and the way in which they risked everything for the Gospel of Christ" - Archbishop Michael Neary of Tuam.
Shalom Centre invited by UN to discuss possible strategic contributions it can make in helping with the creation of Africa's Great Green Wall.
A vote for Sinn Féin is a vote for abortion on demand, says Precious Life.
Focus Ireland warned that these two new sets of figures clearly show that the homeless crisis is continuing to deepen with less than five weeks to Christmas.
“There has been a period when the state has retreated, or been ideologically pushed to retreat, or redefine its role, the citizen’s social opportunity to fully participate or flourish, as many social philosophers would put it, has been diminished.” President Higgins
“A priest is certainly not the man who arrives into a parish, perfectly packaged, with all the answers."
Archbishop Eamon Martin said: “It is shocking to realise that in the twenty-first century, Christians continue to be persecuted, displaced, intimidated, tortured, and even executed on account of their faith. Places of worship are targeted by violence and destruction.”
Columban priest Fr Shay Cullen receives the 2017 Martin Buber Award in the Netherlands.
Archbishop Neary pays tribute to young people’s “very significant contribution” to the local church, from teaching computers to the elderly to caring for people with special needs on pilgrimage to Lourdes.
Too many in our society continue to be exposed to paramilitary violence at an early age, either as victims of direct attacks or as members of families subjected to intimidation
Without the continued support of religous orders, Dublin could face a 70% drop in the number of its priests by 2030
With homelessness at an unprecedented state of crisis today in Ireland, it is almost unjust and unchristian to claim economic success.
Fr Solanus Casey is thought to have been instrumental in obtaining many cures and blessings for the faithful in Detroit.
“Poverty is above all a call to follow Jesus in his own poverty.” Message of Pope Francis for the World Day of the Poor
“The Church continues to speak up for the intrinsic value of human life and the good of both the child in the womb and its mother” Scottish Bishops
A new stained-glass window on the theme of reconciliation has been unveiled in St. John’s Catholic Church, Tralee
Irish Trócaire Country Director in Harare describes the mood of the country.
In Dublin, parishes are asked to mark World Day of the Poor by organising support for the Crosscare Parish Food Appeal, which takes place in two weeks' time
The ACP said that clear and direct policies plus a robust evaluation has meant that the Catholic Church is now a much safer place for children and vulnerable adults.
