The Association of Catholics in Ireland (ACI) carried out a pilot study among members in 36 parishes to explore the extent of lay leadership in the Catholic Church and the role that the laity plays in parish leadership.
Grandparents need to communicate faith by combining life experience with the technology that is intrinsic to their grandchildren’s lives, according to Catherine Wiley.
“So that as we get to celebrate the life death and resurrection of Christ, which is the Eucharist, at Easter time, we will have that huge understanding and that in some sense we will rise with the Lord.”
The Church should no longer be satisfied “with simple recognition of fragments of residual faith that are still present from one generation to the next. They are important, but insufficient today to build strong faith.”
Less than a quarter of Irish Catholic teenagers surveyed were able to correctly name the Trinity as “Father, Son and Holy Spirit”, says survey author.
Archbishop Eamon Martin tells Irish Catholic education conference: "In a Catholic school, religion is not an added extra to be fitted in during break time or twilight hours or registration."
“When I arrived at the break of day, I saw a destroyed village, screams, death... We are truly in a desperate situation" - Bishop Giovanni D'Ercole of Ascoli Piceno.
"A pilgrim and a tourist may follow the same itinerary, but the pilgrim is on a sacred journey in which God is encountered through people, places and situations.”
Fr Timothy Bartlett is director of public and social affairs in the Diocese of Down & Connor and also Secretary to the Northern Bishops.
This weekend’s collection will be followed by another national collection next year and a final one in 2018, all aimed at defraying some of the large costs involved.
Pilgrims invited to Music Ministry Together weekend to learn music, get to know each other, and gain a deeper understanding of music in the liturgy of the Church.
Missio ad Gentes (Mission to the nations) begins in fifty places including the diocese of Limerick in Ireland.
Two-year programme of study offered through a partnership between the Diocese of Cork and Ross and Maryvale Institute.
Some 15,000 people from about 90 countries, and at least 1 million Filipinos, are expected to participate in the event from 24-31 January.
Anniversary is also a time to review, to recommit to renewal and to discern what the Spirit today is saying to the Church.
“I would like, in the name of the Church, to ask for forgiveness for the scandals which recently have fallen both on Rome and the Vatican.”
Challenges currently facing the Irish Church are a springboard of opportunity for a new evangelisation of the Church in Ireland: Archbishop Eamon Martin.
Bishop Brendan Leahy urges grandparents to help their grandchildren in the faith at 2015 Catholic Grandparents Pilgrimage in Knock.
"We are going to have less and less priests in Ireland over the coming years and we will be forced to think outside mass for liturgy. We therefore need to get young people more involved in the church outside of the formal structure of the mass and one of the ways to do this is through music," says international sacred music composer.
Grow in Love programme, replacing Alive O, will be rolled out in Catholic primary schools from September 2015.
"Initially we will reach out to those devoted to the Church, but once we are established we hope to bring lukewarm Catholics back to faith."
"We haven’t perhaps communicated sufficiently the art of critical discernment in the light of the Gospel and faith," says bishop of Limerick.
Experience of failure & struggle cannot be irrelevant in arriving at the way we proclaim the Church’s teaching on marriage & family.
The sacrament of marriage is a sacrament given for the building up of the Church.
One of the teachers at a school in Galway recently said, ‘I believe my students might never hear this message again’.
Delegates who attended Saturday’s gathering will remain on the synod journey right up to 2016.
A non-confrontational outreach to young people out on a Friday or Saturday night in pubs, clubs or cinemas.
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin briefs journalists in the Vatican on Saturday, halfway through the Synod discussions.
Just two places left in month long course in Westmeath.
"Creeping despair and emptiness ... has tragically taken the lives of too many of our young people through suicide.”
