A vision for community
A transformation that only the Holy Spirit can accomplish within us
Visit of Bishop Hilary of South Sudan; €2000 raised for Catholic Church Restoration Fund; Kingdom Women 2013; Derry & Raphoe Youth Focus; Ensuring bells continue to ring in Ballymena; Records of St Audoen’s Tell a Tale of Early Dublin
Church questions Government redefinition of child poverty; Bishop of Worcester becomes next Lord High Almoner; Woolly mitre for bishop; Call to UK government: combat global tax avoidance; Church fun days boost Southsea congregation
Gail Walker writing in the Belfast Telegraph - So, now we know that the Catholic Council for Maintained Schools thinks that planning to murder a senior RUC man and attack a police station is no impediment to teaching in a Catholic school.
Our confidence is in the Righteous One who has considered the voiceless
Archbishop Of Dublin seeks meeting with the Taoiseach On Bethany Home; New departure for Kilkenny College on fees; Bilingual Services Book Launched; Ugandan orphans choir thrills; 180 attend Bishop’s first Lent Talk; Limerick Lent Hunger Lunch; Youth post vacated; Media review
Bishops back NFU Buy British food campaign; Durham Diocese searching for its next bishop; Bishops take up bicycle challenge; Church gives Saturday shoppers food for thought; Media review
The first appointment made by Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby is Irishman David Porter as Director for Reconciliation at Lambeth Palace. On his blog, Shouting at the Devil, he has reflected on his journey thus far...
How do we behave when we are inside our church?
New Library at St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast; Limerick project Videos from Swaziland; New Centre in Meath & Kildare; ‘Being Published’ by Patrick Semple; Liturgical Advisory Committee News; Vacancy
Information on a series of events throughout Ireland
Ulsterman who as a young infantry officer was awarded one of the first Military Crosses of the Korean War and who was involved in the building of the RUR Memorial Chapel at Belfast Cathedral and the presentation and design of the Dean's Insignium
The riches of God is the richness of kindness
Pilot ‘Dreamscheme’ for the youth of east Belfast; New Course For Church Musicians Starts in Avoca; Celebrity Parish Pancake Party; Crosslinks staff to train church leaders in Ethiopia; Catholic scholars call for changes in church; Two in five leave NI schools without basic reading and writing; Queen's University Vice-Chancellor appointed to head up Cranfield University
Anglican exploration of Christian attitudes to the Holy Land available online; Structure task force has first meeting; US Bishops and "Ashes to Go”; Archbishop appeals on behalf of deaf school in Egypt; Future of Anglican-Catholic relations depend on successor
If it is the case — and it seems to be — that so significant a historic event as the resignation of a pope means so little to so many people raised in the Catholic faith, then surely the Church in Ireland, and presumably elsewhere, faces fundamental problems - Fergus Finlay writes in The Irish Examiner
Two Attitudes - Firebrands and faithful servants
Rathcoole churches call for an end to protest violence; Presbytery concern over unrest; Three Divine Healing Ministries events; Limerick church celebrates 200th anniversary with Genealogy and Family History Day; Art in the City; Resignation of senior Catholic cleric
Bishop Alan's marriage equality inbox; Churches concerned over child poverty measure; Media review
Justifiable local pride in this feature published in Kilkenny People - Although it measures just 212 feet in length, St Canice’s Cathedral is full of priceless historical, archaeological and social data.
Paul asks the church to embrace the new inheritance of freedom
Irishman is Archbishop of Canterbury's new Director of Reconciliation
Ballymacarrett churches share a food ministry; Narnia Festival Launched in Bray; Willowfield Year Out Team; Ministry of Healing Lenten Quiet Day; Join the JIMS Crew for a year; Archbishop visits Salvation Army’s Dublin Centre; Retired Bishop denies abuse cover-up; Belfast BB President appointed; Powerful Holocaust exhibition; Lenten Study Groups
NHS must return to Christian basis - bishops; Know what you're eating, say church advisers; Hereford Cathedral launches appeal for urgent roof repairs; Glasgow Lent festival fuses art music and faith; Church raising new generation of entrepreneurs; Gay marriage: no opt-out for Christian registrars
Recently arguments over same-sex marriage have drowned out other legal cases where respect for religious conscience has prevailed. As debates rage over what constitutes human rights, secular society remains unpersuaded by the Church’s traditionalist stance. Conor Gearty writing in The Tablet -
There is more kindness in the world than you may believe
The Hatching of the Heart
Outreach into community is a gift to families in need; Ballymacash on the air; Records Of St Audoen"s Tell a Tale Of Early Dublin; Ex-Impartial journalist wins IFTA award for clerical abuse documentary; Religious orders refuse to budge on child-abuse payout; Catholic-bashers have embellished the truth about abuse in Catholic institutions; Full-time carers under financial strain; NI's domestic abuse rates rise; Children as young as 11 ‘sexting’ on social media
Archbishop of Canterbury faces "a challenge for the imagination”; People who ‘do God, do good’, says Baroness Warsi; New child poverty measure ‘fatally flawed’, say British churches; Archbishop prays on streets of Middlesbrough; Demand for winter shelters grows