“These guidelines hope to provide you with some information to help you make a well-informed decision about donating your organs after death,” said Bishop Paul Mason.
There were 20,313 marriages in Ireland in 2019 including 640 same-sex marriages. This equates to a crude (unadjusted) marriage rate of 4.1 per 1,000 population – statistician Carol Anne Hennessy.
"These baptized are martyrs. They have not betrayed the Gospel," - Cardinal Sarah.
Among hundreds of attendees at the Alpha Ireland Conference last weekend were recently ordained Bishop Michael Router, Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan, Bishop Denis Nulty, and the Most Reverend Dr Michael Jackson.
“The Word of God neither ages nor ceases to be relevant, no matter what changes occur in our society.”
“For the sake of the most vulnerable in our society, for the sake of the victims of our past, for the sake of children in our schools and for the sake of people who need improved health and social care services, now is the time to find a resolution to the political impasse.”
“This is not a time for wringing our hands in frustration or for sitting on our hands in despair. We need to talk. We need to work together. We need to stop deferring decisions that need to be made now.”
In relation to the shortage of priests in the Church, Fr Brian McKevitt said it was no wonder there was a shortage, as no young man would want to join “an outfit that doesn’t even believe in itself or doesn’t believe in its own mission”.
In his homily at a Mass to open the academic year, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin warns that removing the Church entirely from Irish education could be “a deliberate misreading of Irish history”.
The survey of 875 adults took place at 64 locations across the country, between 23rd July and 6th August.
Ciara Ferry continues her weekly series looking back at the week’s coverage of the forthcoming referendum. This week, Ciara looks at Senator Catherine Noone and her attack on the Church.
Cross-denominational response to the 8th amendment looks at life issue from a specifically Christian perspective.
“Together across our community we might come together, each of us and all of us, from all sectors including the churches and acknowledge our part in the hurt, the grief and the pain of the past 48 plus years.”
“I have always maintained that the Catholic Church must fully accept its responsibilities to those who have suffered abuse."
Pope Francis expresses horror and condemnation at act of senseless hatred and the dreadfully high number of innocent victims.
Archbishop of Cashel & Emly pays tribute to the commitment of teachers and parents, as well as the boards of management, and the facilities available to children today.
Bishops, priests and nuns urge Pope Francis to change unfair methods, such as anonymous denunciations, for investigating unorthodox views.
“Journalists on occasion have abandoned the careful, nuanced use of language in favour of wild sweeping assertions which ... encourage virulent anti-Catholicism.”
“It’s time for antiquated and discriminatory attitudes towards unborn babies with disabilities to end.”
Television series explores inner struggle between the responsibility of being pope and the miseries of the man chosen as Pontiff.
22% rise on the departure of 178,805 Catholics in 2013. Only 2,809 entered the Church in 2014 and 6,314 were readmitted.
“A society that identifies the two parties in marriage as spouse I and spouse II has lost sight of a deep truth of human nature" - Archbishop Neary.
Tony and Emmy-winning actor and director Joe Mantegna to be honoured at inaugural St Pio Foundation awards.
Forty representatives from around the world include Austrian couple excommunicated for holding private Masses without a priest.
Special ceremony to take place at religious services on Easter Sunday throughout County Mayo.
“We saw an opportunity to fill a need. There’s a real hunger" - Boston Globe Editor Brian McGrory.
Bishop John McAreavey "appalled" by damaging assertion in political literature.
Collection of essays will be presented to Pope Francis in Rome next week.
Archbishop welcomes forum in which to "calmly and rationally" look at all dimensions of migration.
"Each ordinariate is different, but we share a common goal and a lot of the challenges we face are common ones."
