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I CAN SEE GOD.  I dropped in yesterday afternoon on RTÉ to check on a News item. Maire Saaritsa was speaking and caught my attention. She enthralled me and I…

The Holy See Press Office announces that Pope Leo will make an Apostolic Journey to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru in November 2026. Vatican News – link to article Pope Leo…

Western People 4.8.2026 Here’s a question about the recent experience of Mayo as All-Ireland Champions. How can we explain the enormous, frustrating and compelling (even inexplicable) experience of the present…

Updated / Tuesday, 4 Aug 2026 12:19 By Ailbhe Conneely, Social Affairs & Religion Correspondent Link to article The names of over 300 former Christian Brothers have been published in a…

Bishop Hieronymus Emusugut Joya in Kenya introduced a 7pm curfew and a ban on overnight guests Sarah MacDonald 3 Aug 2026 Link to article A bishop’s appeal to women not…

On Wednesday next there will be a special healing mass in Lady’s Island at 3pm where we will have a visit and blessing of the relic of St Brigid. This…

PRIESTHOOD, MINISTRY, KINGDOM:  My niece sent me something my sister Helen had written some years back. Helen is not well these times. So it was very moving to read her…

Michael Duggan  30 July 2026, The Tablet The remains of 99 children have now been recovered from the site of the notorious former mother-and-baby institution in Tuam, Co. Galway. All…

18th week in Ordinary Time, Sunday 2 August 2026 – Multiplication

29 Jul 2026 Bishop Ger Nash, Bishop of Ferns, and newly appointed Bishop of Ossory (Catholic Communications Office archive) His Holiness Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Gerard Nash to…

In the almost fifteen years now since I was suspended from ministry as a priest, I have regularly complained about the lack of due process in the dealings with my…

After 75 years of longing, Mayo’s triumph was a collective exhale for the generations gone who never knew an All-Ireland victory of their own Article from the Irish Examiner 28…

Opening CommentGreat wonders are proclaimed in today’s Liturgy. God’s love and God’s care for humanity are made manifest. Penitential Rite To prepare ourselves to listen and share, let us recall…

Western People, 28.7.26 ‘The Championship’, someone wrote, ‘has romance sewn into its centre’ and last Sunday, Mayo people, at home and across the world, felt the texture of that wisdom….

ANDY BURNHAM:  Andy Burnham claimed that the the three major influences on him were: Everton FC, the Labour Party  and the Catholic Church. Now it is rather interesting that he…

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The General Secretariat of the Synod offers Bishops and diocesan synodal teams practical guidance for evaluation Assemblies to be held in the first half of 2027. Vatican News – link…

Mayo 1:20 Kerry 1:17 …after a 75-year wait.

Link to article: https://www.catholicbishops.ie/2026/07/21/father-mike-schmitz-god-gives-us-enough-light-for-the-next-step/ Saint Kevin’s Church on Harrington Street (Dublin) was filled to capacity on Monday evening, as 800 people gathered for Mass ahead of Father Mike Schmitz’s sold-out Parables…

The question arises every few years, whether in response to a new survey, a church document, a comment from a pope or bishop, a well-known priest leaving the priesthood and…