Irish Bishops promote peace in the Holy Land
Bishop Noel Treanor and Bishop Alan McGuckian SJ will join with bishops from Europe and North America on this visit to the Holy Land.
Bishop Noel Treanor and Bishop Alan McGuckian SJ will join with bishops from Europe and North America on this visit to the Holy Land.
Archbishop Michael Neary, Archbishop of Tuam will lead a group from Knock Shrine to participate in a Papal Mass celebrating the first ever Sunday of the Word of God.
At the General Audience on Wednesday, Pope Francis called for prayers for Australia, which is battling massive wildfires.
“Come to me, all you who labour and are burdened” is the theme of the World Day of the Sick, to be marked on 11 February.
Amid an escalating crisis between the United States and Iran, Pope Francis urges nations to exercise self-control and dialogue.
World Day of Prayer for Peace 2020
“We give thanks for the work of our Defence Forces in places of conflict around the world. We give thanks for our Gardaí who are servants of peace for us all." - Archbishop Diarmuid Martin
"For me, this gesture on the part of the Holy Father is an unexpected one and a humbling one.I take it as a sign of the esteem in which Lough Derg is held by the Holy See." - Father Larry Flynn, Prior, Lough Derg
The year that begins will be a journey of hope and peace, not through words, but through daily gestures of dialogue, reconciliation and care for creation. - Pope Francis
"We are called to listen to one another, and especially to victims of conflict in such a way that we achieve mutual understanding and esteem, and even to seeing in an enemy the face of a brother or sister.” - Bishop Noel Treanor