Christian married couples should seek to lead cohabiting couples towards marriage, Pope Leo has said in a message to participants in a seminar organised by the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life in Rome this week. The number of cohabiting couples in Ireland has soared in recent decades from almost zero in the 1990s…
“Lough Derg will not be the hungriest place on Earth this weekend. That will be Gaza,” said Fr Eamonn Conway at the Lough Derg opening Mass last week for the three-day pilgrimage season. Currently only a trickle of food is reaching Gaza. The priest told pilgrims that the constant display of images of starving children and their…
Youth ministry must be active in every parish, according to the Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, Denis Nulty. Bishop Nulty made the comment after a meeting with youth leaders, to discuss ‘intentional youth ministry’. This followed a gathering organised last month by Bishop Fintan Gavin, when they discussed the role of youth in the Irish…
Pope Leo XIV assured Irish clergy of his continual prayers for vocations in Ireland during an audience in St Peter’s Square, where he met with a delegation of Irish vocation directors, including Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan of Waterford and Lismore. Bishop Cullinan, who introduced the delegation to the Pope, called the meeting “a very personal moment.”…
The chair of the Healthcare Chaplaincy Board has voiced concern following a new report from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), stating that over 8,000 patients were left waiting for a hospital bed in Ireland last month. Speaking to The Irish Catholic, Fr John Kelly described the crisis as a failure “across the whole healthcare…
