“While we are all aware of the great challenges facing the Church and society at this time, we know also that God the all-powerful is always with us,” said Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan, chair of the Bishops’ Council for Vocations.

"The broad, global, and universal viewpoint offered by a Roman experience has been enriching for many down through the centuries," said the Irish Bishops' Conference

Our mission is clear. We want to send well-formed Catholics into the world to carry out their apostolates, follow their vocations, and rebuild the Church, says Co-founder Edward Barrett-Shortt.

The evening will include dinner, a raffle, a band and DJ and an opportunity to meet many new people from across Ireland.

that the Church may appreciate the urgency of formation in spiritual discernment, both on the personal and communitarian levels

Formation in Spiritual Discernment

Fr Mullaney has served as Registrar, Vice President and most recently Acting President of Saint Patrick’s College, and has also helped out as a curate in the parish of Holycross/Ballycahill at weekends.

Sydney-based Institute of Theological Education and Bray-based communications and technology services company to offer high quality distance theological education online in Ireland and the UK.

Appointment is a way of saying the Diocese of Elphin believes in the future of the priesthood. “We hope that, in the coming years, we will be able to send seminarians both to the Irish College and to Maynooth” – Bishop Kevin Doran.

The permanent diaconate has the capacity and capability of changing the face of the Irish Church – Bishop Denis Nulty.

New institutions are needed to address a new era says Archbishop Diarmuid Martin.

Trustees order seminary authorities to evaluate and review policy relating to “the appropriate use of the internet and social media”.

Apostolic constitution, Vultum Dei quaerere, calls for ongoing formation for Sisters and “due discretion” in the use of digital means of communication.

"If we don't have youth ministry on a permanent basis in every decent-sized parish in Ireland, we won't have a Church in the future": Director of NET Ministries Ireland.

"All the guys I went to school with are walking away from the Church. We've got to reach out to them, without forgetting older people."

New batch of seminarians is up on last year's cohort of 14 and brings the total number of resident seminarians training in Maynooth to sixty.

Grow in Love programme, replacing Alive O, will be rolled out in Catholic primary schools from September 2015.

Nine new deacons and 14 ordinations to the priesthood contribute to a "remarkable year" for Maynooth.

Up to 600 parish representatives join Bishop Buckley and members of Cork & Ross' religious orders to mark the Year for Consecrated Life.

“If we as priests don’t encourage this culture of discernment, the young men who want to become priests ... will slip through the cracks.”

Pontiff tells leaders of religious orders they should not tolerate corruption.

Kildare and Leighlin becomes fifth Irish diocese to restore ancient ministry.

Bishop McAreavey ordains Diocese of Dromore’s first two Permanent Deacons.

Watch a full recording and read full text of the homily by Fr Brendan Leahy in Carlow Cathedral on 11th October 2012.

This presentation at IEC2012 explores practical ways that can help Grandparents fulfill their role of passing on their most precious gift of faith in a world that is increasingly hostile to those beliefs.

Julie Kavanagh explores the foundational principles of ritual and liturgy in a workshop at IEC2012.

Monica Brown, from Sydney, Australia, is director of Emmaus Productions International and is acclaimed Christian composer and workshop/retreat facilitator.

Share the Good News is the title of the ten year plan for the revitalisation of the Irish Church. It took six years of consultation to compose the plan before it was approved by Rome. This workshop explores various aspects of Share the Good News.

Maeve Mahon introduces a resource - Come, Gather and Celebrate - which includes a DVD of a Mass celebrated with the New Missal.

In this book Finola Cunnane seeks to clarify the meaning and purpose of religious education at school, at home and in the community.