Winter 2013 General Meeting of the Irish Bishops’ Conference concludes in Maynooth
The Winter General Meeting of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference concluded this evening in the Columba Centre of Saint Patrick’s College Maynooth in Co Kildare. The following issues were discussed by the bishops over their two day meeting. · Advent and the Sacrament of Reconciliation · Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (the...
Advent Calendar
Archbishop Eamon Martin has launched a specially commissioned Advent calendar on the homepage of the Irish Catholic bishops’ website www.catholicbishops.ie. Archbishop Eamon said, “I am delighted to launch our new Advent calendar which each day up to Christmas Eve will reveal Advent information and prayer resources by clicking on a virtual numerical...
Intercom Christmas 2013
Content from the Christmas 2013 issue of Intercom, including an article by Monsignor Jim Cassin introducing Catholic Schools Week 2014: Catholic Schools: Places of Faith and Learning.
'Sharing the Good News' - Issue 2 December 2013
Sharing the Good News is a new monthly one page newsletter from the Catholic Communications Office. This newsletter, for the benefit of parishioners, will be published monthly to promote Church teaching and the pastoral work of bishops as well as the councils, agencies, offices and initiatives of the Bishops’ Conference.
'Evangelii Gaudium' the first Apostolic Exhortation from Pope Francis
"In this Exhortation I wish to encourage the Christian faithful to embark upon a new chapter of evangelization marked by this joy, while pointing out new paths for the Church’s journey in years to come." - Pope Francis (Evangelii Gaudium)
Let us remember those who pray - Bishop Philip Boyce
Every 21 November, the Memorial of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is the annual day that the Catholic Church commemorates the hidden life of cloistered and contemplative religious throughout the world. This liturgical feast of Our Lady is very dear to Christians in the East who have...
Conference to mark World AIDS Day 2013
Faith in Action: Supporting Women in the face of HIV is the theme of a conference to be hosted by Trócaire and Maynooth College to mark World AIDS Day 2013. Details: Date and time: Thursday 5 December 2013 from 6.30pm to 8.30pm. Venue: Renehan Hall, Saint PAtrick's College, Maynooth, Co Kildare Speakers will include:...
50th anniversary of Sacrosanctum Concilium
One of the first issues considered by the Second Vatican Council, and the matter that had the most immediate effect on the lives of individual Catholics, was the revision of the liturgy. The central idea was that there ought to be greater lay participation in the liturgy. Bishop Leahy reflects,...
