The Catholics of Dublin have a dedicated cathedral for the first time in 500 years following Pope Leo XIV’s decision on Nov. 14 to designate St. Mary’s Pro Cathedral as the Irish capital’s official Catholic cathedral.
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Cardinal Grech in Ireland talks LGBT issues, the synod and the Vatican’s same-sex blessings doc
Speaking at a conference about the synod in Knock, County Mayo, Cardinal Mario Grech, secretary-general of the synod, said that “Fiducia Supplicans,” will not affect the forthcoming second session of the Synod on Synodality.
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From St. Patrick’s to St. Patrick’s: New York’s Cardinal Dolan makes anniversary pilgrimage to Ireland
Cardinal Timothy Dolan celebrated Mass at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Armagh, Ireland, marking both the church’s 150th anniversary and relaying the importance of Irish Catholics in Dolan’s own archdiocese of New York.
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Czerny: Pandemic made people grasp role of migrants as essential workers
Canadian Cardinal Michael Czerny: “We had to be as shocked and stuck” during lockdown before “our eyes began to open.”
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With St. Patrick’s Day canceled by Covid-19, Irish bishops offer prayers
“The strength of a culture is seen, not when things are going well, but when crisis strikes,” Bishop Donal McKeown of Derry said March 17 in his St. Patrick’s Day homily in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
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Church recognizes 1989 healing at Knock shrine
On Sept. 1, Bishop Francis Duffy of Ardagh announced to a packed basilica that the church had officially recognized 68-year-old Carroll’s healing.
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Vatican official: Church must be prudent judging Medjugorje apparitions
While on a visit to the Marian Shrine in Knock, Co. Mayo, Ireland, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, said that the church must be “prudent and not rush” to any judgment concerning the apparitions at Medjugorje.
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Ireland agrees to reassess claims of workers in Magdalene laundries
Women who worked in Ireland’s “Magdalene laundries” but were denied compensation under the state’s Magdalene Restorative Justice program have won their long-running battle to have their applications reassessed.
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Keep fighting clergy abuse, say Irish church leaders
Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin warned there was “a danger of complacency or inertia or of slippage into false confidence” in the church’s fight against clerical abuse.
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Fr. James Martin urges Catholics to examine attitudes toward L.G.B.T. community
At the World Meeting of Families, Father Martin said LGBT people should be invited into parish ministries as “eucharistic ministers, music ministers, lectors, bereavement ministry, and every ministry.”