Heart of saint goes to Dublin
The heart of St Camillus, the most sacred relic of the saint, is to be brought to Dublin from Rome. The heart will be venerated at the Order of St Camillus in July in order to mark the 75th anniversary...
View ArticleMater will not perform abortions, says nun on hospital board
One of the two nuns on the board of the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in Dublin has stressed it “won’t be performing abortions” following the introduction of the Protection of Life during...
View ArticlePriest says he resigned from Mater Hospital board over Ireland’s abortion law
An Irish priest said he stepped down from the board of directors of a Catholic hospital in Ireland after it promised to comply with the country’s new law that allows abortion in limited circumstances....
View ArticleHail, glorious St Patrick!
On St Patrick’s Day my thoughts turn to my first trip to Ireland; it was in August 1988, and I was in my twenties. Two things were happening in the world at that time: one was aftermath of the...
View ArticleAbuse survivor says new Vatican commission must achieve real change
The lone clerical abuse survivor nominated by Pope Francis to sit on the new Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors said the commission needs to achieve concrete change in order to “show...
View ArticleJackie Kennedy was ‘bitter against God’ after death of JFK, letters reveal
Newly released letters between former US first lady Jackie Kennedy and a Dublin-based priest reveal Kennedy’s struggles to keep her faith after her husband’s assassination. The letters exchanged by...
View ArticleJackie Kennedy letters to Irish priest withdrawn from planned auction
A Catholic college will no longer auction letters sent by former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy to an Irish priest. Earlier in May Vincentian-run All Hallows College in Dublin announced that it was...
View Article‘Abuse crisis is not a thing of the past,’ says Irish archbishop
The crisis of child abuse by clergy is not a thing of the past — it will linger until the Church humbly and courageously reaches out to all people still suffering in silence, said Archbishop Diarmuid...
View ArticleUniversities could learn a lesson from Newman
Anyone acquainted with the portrait of Blessed John Henry Newman in his cardinal’s robes, painted by Millais, might be tempted to form an opinion of him based on this image alone: a man whose features...
View ArticlePost-crash Ireland desperately needs the faith
Since 2008, Ireland has been marked by a deep economic crisis, a series of corruption scandals and a once stable political system sliding into dysfunction. Yet the Catholic Church, long the moral...
View ArticleArtist hopes statue of Archbishop Fulton Sheen will inspire a new generation...
An Irish artist commissioned to make a statue of Archbishop Fulton Sheen for New York’s famous St Malachy Church, also known as The Actors’ Chapel, hopes the work will inspire a new generation of...
View ArticleWorld Meeting of Families 2018 will be held in Dublin
The next World Meeting of Families will be held in Dublin in 2018, it has been announced. The news was released towards the end of the Mass celebrated in Philadelphia over the weekend for this year’s...
View ArticleWhat’s inside this week’s Catholic Herald?
Cover Story… This week, Robert Wargas explains why Tehran is pulling the wool over Rome’s eyes More comment… Joanna Bogle on the Resistance hero who shaped Humanae Vitae Will Gore on the one film every...
View ArticleDublin priest ordained bishop in St Peter’s Basilica
In the presence of family, bishops and priests from Ireland and colleagues from the Vatican, Irish Mgr Paul Tighe was ordained a bishop on Saturday by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of...
View ArticleWhen the rosary rang out in Dublin’s war zone
Invited to make a contribution to Ireland’s commemoration of the Easter Rising of 1916, I chose to speak, in a Dublin church, about the nuns and friars who ministered to the people during that fateful...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 27/04/16
The Catholic Church no longer uses “the language of ‘null and void'” when referring to Anglican orders, a Vatican official has said. Recent violence in Dublin is “despicable and evil”, Archbishop...
View ArticleArchbishop urges Dublin to ‘break the chain of hate and evil’
The Archbishop of Dublin has called on citizens to “break the chain of hate and evil” following an escalation of gang violence in the city. In a statement released yesterday, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin...
View ArticleVatican confirms World Meeting of Families to take place in Dublin in August...
The 2018 World Meeting of Families in Ireland is part of a broad programme of renewal of the Church’s pastoral care for all families, said Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin. “In Pope Francis’s mind,...
View ArticleDublin archbishop to stop sending seminarians to Maynooth
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin said he would no longer send students to the national seminary at Maynooth amid allegations of inappropriate sexual behaviour. The archbishop referred to...
View ArticlePro-life campaigners welcome suspension of Marie Stopes services
Pro-life campaigners have welcomed the suspension of some services offered by one of the country’s biggest abortion providers, after an investigation prompted serious concerns about patient safety....
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