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Fr Lawton honoured in Maynooth on the weekend

The chapel of St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, was filled last Sunday evening to honour and celebrate the music and ministry....

Inter-varsity Ball 2026 gathers Catholic youth in Dublin

University students gathered on February 7 in the Hotel Riu Plaza, The Gresham in Dublin, for the 2026 Catholic Inter-varsity....

Bishop Niall Coll hopes to ‘awaken the laity’ in Diocese of Raphoe

Bishop Niall Coll has returned to his home diocese of Raphoe with an appreciation for the distinctiveness of the Donegal....

Over 100 Catechumens were presented in Dublin on the weekend

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Crux editor, veteran Vatican journalist John Allen loses battle with cancer

Bishops to launch new Commission on divestment of schools

A response to Mary McAleese

Numbers at Mass might be down, but commitment and engagement are not, says Galway parish priest

Community heartbroken as St Mary’s, Knockmoyle, celebrates its last Sunday Mass

Catholic Mothers Ireland granted charity status

Pockets of hope: youth ministry shows steady signs of growth across Ireland

Churches unite at Newry creation conference as unity week begins

Order of Malta welcomes An Post stamp honouring Msgr Hugh O’Flaherty

Church will grow if families evangelise – bishop

Donegal parishes to become ‘catechumenal hubs’

Christmas 2025 had mostly packed churches around the country

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Health is wealth: The legendary Larry Tompkins

Intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face

Women treated as postscripts will not enable synodality and the future flourishing of Church

Giving up meat or giving up screens? A look at Lent in 2026

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