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Western People 18.11.2025 I’m not sure why I found some of the media coverage of the crimes of the disgraced  hurling icon, DJ Carey, so distasteful.(For those far from Ireland…

Coming Wood You Believe Healing Seminars with Jim Cogley & Luba Rodzhuk: An Tobar Retreat Centre, Navan, Fri 28th Nov 7.00-9.30pm – Recovery from Loss Saturday 10am-4pm Healing and Integration…

Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the Maga evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression Trumpism’s most revealing and defining moments…

Ahead of his upcoming Apostolic Journey to Türkiye, Pope Leo issues the Apostolic Letter ‘In unitate fidei’ on the 1700th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, broken down into 12…

Archbishop Martin: the Church needs to champion & promote the dignity of women Archbishop Eamon Martin addressing the IX World Meeting of Families in Dublin in August 2018 (Catholic Communications Office…

To His Holiness, Pope Leo Most Holy Father, I write with deep respect to share how the past decade has been experienced by the priests and people of the Diocese…

The gigantic statue of Constantine, of which fragments can be admired at the Capitoline Museum, and which has now been reconstructed as a seated colossus in its garden, tells us…

PRAYER IN ACTION  THE PRAYERBOOK 2026The Irish Jesuits Today’s world is a busy place and many people find their everyday lives are also becoming busier, with constant demands on their…

The Report has been published. It is some 800 pages long. It covers England and the devolved Nations – Scotland, Wales and N Ireland. It cost circa £100 million. I…

AVAILABLE NOW! The Irish Dominicans, 800 Years 1224-2024€30.00 AVAILABLE NOWThe Irish Dominicans, 800 Years is now available. This volume traces the history of the Irish Dominicans from their foundation in Norman…

by Colleen Dulle November 21, 2025 Women were and continue to be a major subject of and major players in the Synod on Synodality, Pope Francis’ signature reform process aimed at making the…

Sunday 23 Nov 2025 – 34th Sunday of the Year Theme: Recognition

Western People 11.11.2025 Delegates from the Catholic dioceses of Ireland gathered in Kilkenny Convention Centre on October 18th to help prepare for a National Synod to be held in October, 2026…

Western People. 4.11.2025 An unspoken but obvious change in attitude in recent times is the new regard most people now have for the care of family graves. Not too long…

Coming Wood You Believe Healing Seminars with Jim Cogley & Luba Rodzhuk: An Tobar Retreat Centre, Navan, Fri 28th Nov 7-9.30pm – Recovery from Loss Saturday 10am-4pm Healing and Integration…

by Michael Sean Winters, November 13, 2025 Link: https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/guest-voices/badly-divided-usccb-limps-future The overarching story from this year’s plenary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is that an increasingly slim majority of…

Link: https://www.catholicbishops.ie/2025/11/14/archbishop-farrell-pope-leo-designates-st-marys-as-cathedral-church-of-dublin/ HomilyReadings: Gen 28:10-22; 1 Pet 2:4-7, 9-10; John 6:52-59Two-hundred years ago today, on the Feast of Saint Laurence O’Toole, this church was dedicated. It was dedicated in a…

Sarah Mac Donald  12 November 2025, The Tablet  Link: https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/older-irish-priests-under-pressure/ In some Irish dioceses more than half the priests are over 70 while in others, there are more priests over…

Pope Leo XIV appoints Bishop Niall Coll as the new Bishop of Raphoe Bishop Niall Coll, Bishop of Raphoe  (Catholic Communications Office archive) Media interviews available at Saint Eunan’s Cathedral, Letterkenny. His…