On Thursday, 24 October, Pope Francis will publish his fourth encyclical of his pontificate focusing on the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in the context of a world "which seems to have lost its heart." Titled Dilexit Nos, meaning “he has loved us” is described by Pope...
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...
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....
Pope Francis (pictured during his visit to Ireland in 2018 for the 9th World Meeting of Families) has lent his support to a campaign by a Catholic charity to have children all over the world, including Ireland, to pray the Rosary for peace this Friday. The...
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 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...
At a gathering in Belfast on 28 September, members of the Catholic marriage service Accord NI (pictured above) gathered to reflect on Accord’s Synodal Pathway journey to address challenges facing the future of its marriage preparation service; in terms of Accord’s...
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