by Chah Garde | Apr 1, 2016 | News archive 2016
“The Irish Church is being renewed, not so much to fit in with contemporary culture, as to stand out from it” – Bishop McKeown On Easter Tuesday, in the beautiful Roman basilica dedicated to Saint Mark in the year 336AD, steps away from Piazza Venezia, in the heart of...
by Oisin Walsh | Mar 31, 2016 | News archive 2016
THE CHURCH AND THE RISING Comments on the Book Edited by Greg Daly for “The Irish Catholic” Remarks of Most Rev. Diarmuid Martin Archbishop of Dublin Church of Saint Mary, Church Street, 31st March 2016 “Earlier this year RTE transmitted a television series...
by Oisin Walsh | Mar 31, 2016 | Features, Headlines, News Feed
Pope Francis’ post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation, “Amoris Laetitia” (The Joy of Love) on love in the family will be released on Friday 8 April. The Vatican confirmed today that the Exhortation will be presented to journalists at the Holy See’s Press Office on Friday 8...
by Oisin Walsh | Mar 29, 2016 | Features, Front Page Banners, Headlines, News Feed
Bishops’ Statements 9 March 2016: Statement of the Spring 2016 General Meeting of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference on the Centenary of the Easter Rising of 1916 The centenary of the Easter Rising marks the watershed moment of our political history. This...
by Oisin Walsh | Mar 28, 2016 | News archive 2016
In the long story that is the history of the Irish people there have been many defining moments. Occasions when in the words of the American President, Franklin D. Roosevelt ‘’we have had a rendezvous with destiny.’’ In our recent history some of these moments have...
