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Western People 18.2.2025 A friend suggested to me recently that what the Catholic Church needed now was a return to the days of religious persecution. There was no sturdy Catholic…

THE THIRD ANNIVERSARY 24TH FEBRUARY: Three years of Russian madness in Ukraine is marked today. The US joined Russia to vote against the UN Resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of the…

Bishop Willie Walsh, or ‘Willie’ as we normally referred to him – he was the most unclerical of bishops – has died at the age of ninety, having lived a…

Note: A seminar entitled Personal and Ancestral Healing will be held in Lady’s Island Community Centre on Saturday8th March from 10am to 4pm. Cost €40 with refreshments included. Facilitators –…

Pope Francis, although in more pain, spent the day sitting in an armchair. Blood transfusions were necessary and prognosis remains guarded. Vatican News 21/02/2025 Doctors: Pope responding to treatment but…

Gerry O’Connor: 7th Sunday Ordinary Time Year C 2025 – the theme is Scope Link

From: https://catholicnews.ie/irish-synodal-pathway-welcomes-progress-of-universal-synods-ten-study-groups/ 19 Feb, 2025 | Church, News, Synod, World Coordinators and secretaries of ten Study Groups, set up in March 2024 by Pope Francis following the First Session of the Sixteenth Ordinary General Assembly…

20 Feb 2025 Bishop Willie Walsh, Bishop Emeritus of Killaloe Statement of Bishop Fintan Monahan on the death of Bishop Emeritus of Killaloe, Willie Walsh RIP There is profound sadness…

A reflection by Soline Humbert for the Women’s Ordination Conference Retreat “Hidden Springs, Holy Radiance” 9 February 2025 [ see recording on YouTube ]  We have been gathering over the…

By John Lavenburg 19 Feb 2025, National Correspondent NEW YORK – Citing the violation of multiple laws and Congress’s authority to control government spending as outlined by the Constitution, the United…

Western People 11.2.2025 50 years ago, in the summer of 1975, in the bicentenary year of the United States of America, I spent six glorious weeks in sunny California. It…

The Holy See Press Office releases an update on Pope Francis’ health as he is treated for a respiratory infection in hospital, noting that his complex clinical picture requires an…

Note: A seminar entitled Personal and Ancestral Healing will be held in Lady’s Island Community Centre on Saturday8th March from 10am to 4pm. Cost €40 with refreshments included. Facilitators –…

The next meeting of our Edinburgh Newman Association is on Monday evening, February 17th at 7.30pm. Our guest speaker will be Rev. Dr. Scott McKenna. Scott has been a Church…

From Irish Catholic Bishops website: https://www.catholicbishops.ie/2025/02/16/pope-francis-appoints-bishop-kevin-doran-as-bishop-of-achonry/ 16 Feb 2025   Bishop Kevin Doran is Bishop of Elphin and Bishop of Achonry (Catholic Communications Office archive) StatementHis Holiness Pope Francis has appointed…

A Note of Thanks for the Irish Association of Catholic Priests I wish to acknowledge my enormous gratitude to the Irish Association of Catholic Priests for endorsing my recent campaign…

Sunday 16 Feb 2025 – ‘Reversing’ 6th Sunday Year C

Pope Francis addresses a letter to the bishops of the United States, expressing his support for their efforts to protect the rights and dignity of migrants. By Vatican News  Link…