Pope’s Christmas schedule released

Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan on the success of the Year for Vocations to the Diocesan Priesthood that comes to an end on Good Shepherd Sunday (21 April 2024)

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Cardinal Mario Grech, General Secretary of the Synod of Bishops, underlines that the focus for the upcoming second session in Rome this October of the Synod on Synodality will be 'how to be a synodal Church in Mission?'

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The Irish Episcopal Council for Emigrants have been responding to the needs of Irish emigrants around the world since 1957.

Through pastoral centres in the US and the UK, we provide direct practical assistance to those experiencing hardship. This can be as simple as providing hot water bottles, electric blankets, furniture, and food those who are most in need and are struggling to keep warm and pay their bills.

We also help our clients access statutory services – including housing and benefits and very importantly we provide social and friendship supports – reaching out to those who are lonely and vulnerable.

Thanks to all those who generously support the collection for the Emigrants’ Council taken up in many parishes throughout the country around St Patrick’s Day.

Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh!

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The late former Taoiseach John Bruton spoke at the 2012 International Eucharistic Congress which was held in Dublin on 'The Christian Tradition in European Democracy'

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Bishop Michael Router shares a message for World Day Of the Sick which will be celebrated on 11th Feb 2024, (Feast of our Lady of Lourdes)

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Julieann Moran looks back at the progress of the synodal pathway for the Catholic Church in Ireland and the Universal Synod on the theme of synodality called by Pope Francis.

See Synod.ie for all videos and documents featured in this video produced by iCatholic

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The theme for the 2024 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (18 to 25 January – the octave of Saint Peter and Saint Paul) is from the parable of the Good Samaritan: ‘love the Lord your God… and your neighbour as yourself’ (Lk 10:27).

Each year a Week of Prayer theme comes from a specific area of the world. For 2024, the discussion by the Archbishops of Armagh is a response to calls from the Christian Churches in Burkina Faso to join with them in self-reflection and consideration of what it means to love our neighbour in the world today.

This year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity will take place from

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Julieann Moran and Fr Eamonn Fitzgibbon discuss a recently published research report which calls for leadership training at local level in order to advance the Irish Synodal Pathway and how each diocese is being asked to form a diocesan synodal team to drive the process forward at local level.

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Bishops Alan McGuckian and Bishop Brendan Leahy share their reflections after attending the first session of the Synod on Synodality in Rome (4th - 29th Oct 2023)

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