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25/11/2025

"It seems, this ‘Vatican roulette’ is increasingly popular with younger people, according to a recent report from – of all sources – the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (one of Britain’s largest abortion providers.)" - Mary Kenny

It’s ironic how the course of events sometimes unfolds, and how change often brings unintended consequences.

25/11/2025

"Even though you may not picture churches like St Mary’s when you think of a cathedral, it turns out that a storied past and bright future lies beyond its white, columned entrance." - Matt Letourneau

When picturing a cathedral, you may imagine the skyscraping towers of Notre-Dame or the grandiose dome of St Paul’s. Although these buildings are synonymous with resplendent architecture, jaw-dropping scale and profound histories, somewhat unassuming churches, such as St Mary’s Pro Cathedral in ...

24/11/2025

"God is love… God is Father…” These are words that reveal much about God—but they can also conceal the truth, if we reduce them to our own limited ideas of love or fatherhood. The same danger appears when we say, “Jesus is King.” - Fr Dominik Domagala

God is love… God is Father…” These are words that reveal much about God—but they can also conceal the truth, if we reduce them to our own limited ideas of love or fatherhood.

24/11/2025

"But if Harris is pandering to ‘racists’, then he is pandering to around 80% of the public because, according to opinion polls, around two-thirds of voters agree that immigration is too high." - David Quinn

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Shortly after the recent presidential election, Tánaiste Simon Harris said something a bit surprising. He told reporters: “Immigration is too high”. His statement was not surprising because he said immigration is high, it is and that’s a fact. What was surprising was that he said it at all.

24/11/2025

"On November 4 Minister for Education and Youth, Helen McEntee, announced a landmark initiative in the primary education system in Ireland with the launch of an online survey of parents, guardians and primary school communities." - Dr Aiveen Mullally

On November 4 Minister for Education and Youth, Helen McEntee, announced a landmark initiative in the primary education system in Ireland with the launch of an online survey of parents, guardians and primary school communities.

24/11/2025

This Advent, journey with us into the world of St Augustine - a profound story of prayer, conversion, and the search for God.

Dr Sarah Faggioli guides us through prayer and brilliance of one of the Church’s greatest thinkers.

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24/11/2025

"These days, his faith is far from hidden. “It is visibly Catholic,” said Dr Ferguson, now Director of Music at St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral in Edinburgh." - Martina Purdy

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Growing up in an Irish seaside town, faith and music were as constant as the waves on the sand for the young Michael Ferguson. But his faith, unlike his music, was rather quiet. He was a Catholic in the mainly Protestant town of Portstewart - and has childhood memories of an IRA bomb wrecking the ne...

23/11/2025

This Advent, journey with us into the world of St Augustine - a profound story of prayer, conversion, and the search for God.

Dr Sarah Faggioli guides us through prayer and brilliance of one of the Church’s greatest thinkers.

Don’t miss it - only in The Irish Catholic.

23/11/2025

"The Kingship of Christ does not have any physical or geographical boundary. But Christ is the universal King and, as the hymn has it, ‘king of all hearts’." - Fr John McCarthy

This feast has its origin in 1920 when the Pope at the time realised that there was the threat of much social chaos in Europe – in fact it was already present, at the overthrow and assassinations of kings and emperors in Portugal, Spain, Austria-Hungary and Russia – in the previous decade. Hence...

23/11/2025

"God is love… God is Father…” These are words that reveal much about God—but they can also conceal the truth, if we reduce them to our own limited ideas of love or fatherhood." - Fr Dominik Domagala

God is love… God is Father…” These are words that reveal much about God—but they can also conceal the truth, if we reduce them to our own limited ideas of love or fatherhood.

22/11/2025

Bishop of Limerick Brendan Leahy, in a wide-ranging Pastoral Letter for the Jubilee Year, invited people to reflect on what the “Catholic faith says about dying, death, what happens after death and prayer for the dead.”

22/11/2025

Bishop Donal Roche welcomed participants by reminding them that renewal in the Irish Church “will not come from programmes alone, but from recovering the spiritual roots that first brought the Gospel to this island.

Irish Church renewal must recover its contemplative roots, Bishop Roche and Fr Freeman tell John Main Seminar in Dublin