The feast day of Saint John Paul II falls on 22 October. To mark this significant feast, CatholicNews.ie has published the homilies and statements of Pope John Paul II delivered as part of his 1979 Apostolic pilgrimage to Ireland. Saint John Paull II was Pope for...
Each week CatholicNews.ie highlights various elements of the upcoming Universal Jubilee 2025 year. To herald the year, on Sunday 29 December, bishops across Ireland will celebrate Mass in their dioceses for the solemn opening of the Holy Year, and thereafter...
On 6 October last, Bishop Alan McGuckian SJ of Down and Connor, welcomed the online availability of daily Mass readings in Irish. The Irish language has joined seventeen other world languages in now having daily Mass readings available to Irish speakers at home...
Today, Wednesday, a bill was introduced into the Westminster Parliament to propose a change in the law to permit assisted suicide, and tomorrow the Final Report of the Joint Committee on Assisted Dying will be discussed by Oireachtas members in Dáil Éireann....
Following the death of Bishop Donal Murray RIP, bishops offered prayers for the happy repose the soul of the late Bishop Murray. Bishop Brendan Leahy of Limerick said that that the passing of Bishop Murray has brought to an end the life of a deeply spiritual man...
On 12 October, Bishops of Ireland published a new pastoral letter on welcoming immigrants, entitled: A Hundred Thousand Welcomes? A Hundred Thousand Welcomes? invites the faithful to reflect on how we welcome immigrants in contemporary Ireland, and the theme is...
Although two Masses had already been celebrated – a Mass corpore insepulto in Brussels on 16 August and the Solemn Requiem Mass in Belfast on 20 August – COMECE and the Chapel for Europe chose to hold this Mass to bring together those who were not in Brussels in...
Father Declan Hurley is Administrator of Navan Parish in the Diocese of Meath and chairperson of the national team of the Irish Synodal Pathway. On 1 October 2024, Father Hurley preached the homily in the historic College Chapel of Saint Patrick’s College,...
On 5 October, in the historic College Chapel of Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth, Bishop Denis Nulty of Kildare & Leighlin and President of Accord CLG delivered a homily at the graduation Mass of Marriage Facilitators and Counsellors. This Mass was attended...
On 8 October, Bishop Fintan Monahan of Killaloe, the designated delegate for the Jubilee Year 2025 of the Bishops’ Conference, welcomed the countdown timer to the Jubilee Year on CatholicBishops.ie. A Jubilee – or Holy – Year is marked every twenty-five years by...
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