The new cardinals’ origins from different parts of the world manifest the catholicity of the Church, spread throughout the earth.
This is an excellent example of real collaboration to the benefit of the local community – Paul Hargaden, Regional Manager for Respond Housing.
At least three-thousands of volunteers are needed to ensure the success of the World Meeting of Families to be held 15 months from now in August 2018.
Anne Walsh is a long established Redemptorist lay missionary. She has worked extensively with the Redemptorists in Canada, Ireland and internationally, as well as with the Canadian Bishops’ Conference.
Ecumenism is not just doctrinal dialogue, but “a dynamic reality” including all dimensions of our witness to the world, “since we are becoming one while together on the way” – Dr Martin Robra, World Council of Churches.
“It is ludicrous to treat research funded by the abortion industry as unbiased. It is like expecting honesty from Big Tobacco on the effects of smoking” – Life Institute.
Crucial value of human rights, including the freedom of religion and the rights of prisoners, on agenda as Pope Tawadros II meets Irish President.
Around 750 people suffer with HD in Ireland and there are more than 3,000 at risk.
It is reported that among the 20 feared dead, some were crushed by other people in the boat, while others drowned at sea. The victims include a child, women and some men – mostly from Nigeria, the Ivory Coast and reportedly from Bangladesh.
Church of Ireland Primate describes beatification as a “day of celebration and joy” in the context of the “unending need for reconciliation in Ireland”.
Election “will determine how we can heal divisions in our society, care for the vulnerable, how our public services are run and whether we can remain a united kingdom” – Catholic Bishops of England and Wales.
John Curry was “A man whose only quiet boast was that he was an altar boy from his childhood in Knock to his death at Sacred Heart home with the Little Sisters of the Poor – rarely if ever missing daily Mass – and Holy Communion.”
“Poverty in a priest still touches hearts, while ostentation always alienates.”
These presumed apparitions don’t have a lot of value. This I say as a personal opinion – Pope Francis.
Faithful to the vow of poverty, he gave immediately to others every gift he received.
A lower court last year ruled that the refusal of family-run Ashers to make a cake iced with the slogan ‘Support Gay Marriage’ in 2014 was discriminatory.
One of his first tasks in Ireland will be the appointment of bishops, including appointments to several dioceses that have been vacant for some time.
Jimmy Deenihan described Fr Pat Moore as a priest “in the truest sense of the vocation whose drive, vision and warmth transformed the life of the parishes he ministered in”.
New community in Roscommon will honour Sr Clare Crockett, who died in earthquake last year in Ecuador.
Pope will mark 100th anniversary of apparitions of Our Lady to shepherds of Fatima and canonise Francisco and Jacinta Marto.
Catholic and Anglican archbishop will together present the solemn petition asking for Fr John Sullivan SJ to be declared a ‘Blessed’.
“We wanted a shelter that was solid but was also a nice home for people,” said Shane Fleming, one of the UCC students.
The Nigerian government announced the release of the young women who were among 300 abducted from the high school in Chibok in April 2014. Ever since then a high profile campaign has been under way under the title ‘Bring Back Our Girls’.
“At present, there are 90 priests ministering in our diocese; 27 of them are over 75. This stark figure reminds us that a radical reappraisal of what a parish community should be, how it should be organised, co-ordinated, funded and ministered, is necessary.”
State-sanctioned executions of people suspected of being drug users or dealers in the Philippines have reached a high of about 8,000 since 30 June 2016.
“When we attempt as Church to speak in the public sphere about the right to life of the unborn, some are quick to point to the scandals and to shameful stories of the past.”
As head of the diplomatic corps in Ethiopia at the time of the famine, Archbishop Thomas White was responsible for coordinating the contributions of many countries and charities in support of those who were starving.
The swearing in ceremony always takes place on 6 May, the anniversary of the Sack of Rome in 1527, when 147 Swiss Guards were killed.
There is nothing especially new about Mr Fry’s remarks, given that they echo those made by the Greek philosopher Epicurus in the third century BC.
“Vocations are born in prayer and only in prayer can they persevere and bear fruit” – Pope Francis.
