Pope Francis on Thursday invited the faithful to let themselves be drawn by Jesus pointing out that Christian life is a daily struggle against temptation. Speaking during the homily at morning Mass in the Casa Santa Marta, the Pope warned against the temptations...
Knock Shrine, Ireland’s National Marian Shrine, has released its calendar for pilgrimages in 2017. Knock pilgrimage season takes place between April and October. Organised pilgrimages will take place every weekend during the pilgrimage season. Some of the...
As the group of Catholic Bishops who make up the “Holy Land Coordination” wrap up this year’s pilgrimage, it is calling for justice and peace in the Holy Land and reminding the rest of us that “it is a scandal to which we must never become accustomed”. The theme of...
Catholic Schools Week 2017 will be celebrated from Sunday 29 January until Saturday 4 February on the theme 'Catholic schools: Learning with Pope Francis to care for our common home'. Father Tom Deenihan from the Council for Education of the Irish Catholic Bishops'...
Pope Francis during his Wednesday General Audience continued his catecheseis on Christian hope and asked for prayers for this Week of Christian Unity. Below find the Pope's English language remarks: Dear Brothers and Sisters: In our continuing catechesis on...
A fragment of the Berlin wall, in the shape of a cross, is being used as a symbol of the need for reconciliation during the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity which begins today Wednesday 18 January and runs until Wednesday 25 January. The international...
We have all learned through bitter experience that wrong is never all on one side - too many families among us still grieve the losses, or nurse the wounds of sectarianism and hatred. - Archbishop Eamon Martin
Pope Francis has said now to so many people that he wants to come, that we can be sure that this is his intention. - Archbishop Diarmuid Martin
The Catholic Primary Schools Management Association has broadly welcomed the public consultation process on school admission policies announced by the Minster for Education and Skills, Richard Bruton TD. However, it noted that the issues arising from it may well...
The Catholic Schools Partnership (CSP), an umbrella body for Catholic schools, has welcomed the announcement today by the Minister for Education & Skills Richard Bruton TD of a consultation process regarding the role of a religion as a selection criterion for...
"Don't follow Canada's lead" - Alex Schadenberg
"The teachings have not changed" - Colm Flynn on 'Infinite Dignity' Vatican document
"Formation, Formation, Formation" - Fr Eamon Conway on the G.R.A.C.E research report
Travelling with Pope Francis - Colm Flynn
"It is absolutely awful because it is such a failure ..." Caoimhe De Barra on starvation in Gaza
"I cannot speak highly enough of the generosity of the Irish people" - Caoimhe de Barra
"I personally feel we need a missionary movement in the Church" - Cardinal Mario Grech
The Synodal Pathway - the journey so far
