In this latest episode of #TheConfessionBox from the folks The Irish Catholic I discuss what the restructuring and reorganisation of Irish dioceses means, and what might be in store. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the…

Secular campaigners often tell us that they have nothing against religion or people of faith. But there is a strand of atheism that can only be described as aggressive secularism. They care about removing every vestige of faith from the public square...

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What is happening to a lot of our young people? Cases of self-harm have increased fivefold in the past three decades. Prof. Matthew Sadlier, a consultant psychiatrist, blamed excessive use of social media and said it is creating a “broken generation”.

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My Column in this week's The Irish Catholic

Podcasts aren’t quite radio but they’re close – the lines are blurred. A relatively new kid on the #podcast block is State of the Nation presented by Michael Kelly ن & David Quinn. Last week’s episode ‘Demonising women who believe in biology’ – obviously dealt with the #gender wars...

CLARE: Fr Jarek from Glenstal Abbey leads the Polish blessing of food at Ennis Cathedral with Bishop of Killaloe Fintan Monahan.

Renowned Irish dancer Michael Flatley has revealed how he personally requested to see his ex-wife Lisa Murphy in hospital to be able to pray by her side and open up to her in her final hours.

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Blessing the people attending the Divine Mercy Sunday devotion celebrated by Fr Mark Moriarty at St John’s Church Tralee, Co. Kerry.

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“The people who stay at home are always welcome but they are missing out on a very important part of faith community and that’s the coming together, being with one another and to be physically able to receive communion.”

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In over a 1000 years, the Irish Church has seen changes made with the effective amalgamation of western dioceses. What does this mean for the Irish Church? Is this the end of the beginning of the end of institutional Irish Catholicism? Tune in!

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Denis & Emma Callanan and Liam & Roisín McGovern present Newbridge parish’s new icon to encourage prayer in the home on the opening night of the Kildare parish’s novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help. Bishop Denis Nulty of Kildare and Leighlin led the opening night of the novena.

Catholic primary schools will continue to follow their own faith-based programmes which require teachers to have a religious education certificate despite pressure to remove the requirement, according to CEO of the CEP Alan Hynes.

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“If an airline asked me to bless a plane, I’ll bless the plane. If the airport authority say ‘you can’t go out airside’, I can do it from the church. As a former Archbishop of Dublin said years ago: ‘I can bless the Dublin mountains from here!’

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Diocesan shake-up: What do these changes mean?
As with most things ecclesiastical, change comes slowly and the last three papal nuncios pushed the Irish hierarchy to reduce the number of dioceses... irishcatholic.com/diocesan-shake…

Dublin diocese is set to get a second auxiliary bishop, after Pope Francis announced Bishop Paul Dempsey will move from his position in Achonry as part of seismic changes in the Church in Ireland.
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As four dioceses in the West merge, the Papal Nuncio to Ireland said the seismic changes were needed to meet “new challenges” facing the Church, “pooling resources” to increase vitality.
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Pope Francis has announced monumental changes to the leadership of dioceses in the West of Ireland in a move that has long been expected, but has come suddenly.

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In my most recent article for The Irish Catholic I said that Harris would have one cabinet reshuffle to save his hide and key to that reshuffle was dumping McEntee. He didn't. He's toast.
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A doctor from one of the children's hospitals told me yesterday that the number of teenagers coming to the hospital after self-harming has increased tenfold since 2005. Some deep societal crisis is going on. I will be writing about it in The Irish Catholic this week.