The Irish Catholic Newspaper

• 

  Time for Change in the Irish Bishops’ Conference

  March 6, 2025

  Pope Francis famously said we aren’t only living in changing times, we are living through the change of an epoch.  He also said “Change is necessary to grow. If we do not change, we do not grow.” Leadership renewal is  essential in any institution, and the Pope has led by example with some very high…

• 

  Changes in Cork’s First Communion celebrations result in disagreements

  March 6, 2025

  Changes planned for Communion and First Confession celebrations in Cork have repeatedly caused disagreements between primary school teachers and Bishop Fintan Gavin. Recently, Bishop Gavin sent a letter to parish priests asking for Communions to only take place on weekends, and First Confessions outside of school hours. The request was not received well by teachers…

  

• 

  242 million children’s education suffered due to climate change – Trócaire

  March 6, 2025

  More than 242 million students in 85 countries had their schooling disrupted by extreme climate events in 2024 according to Trócaire as it launched it’s Lenten campaign this week. Caoimhe de Barra, Trócaire’s CEO, says “The deep injustice of this is that those who have done least to cause the climate crisis, and who have…

  

• 

  A day of hope – new deacon ordained in Dublin Archdiocese

  March 6, 2025

  Archbishop Dermot Farrell celebrated the ordination to the diaconate of Patrick Corkery SJ in the Gonzaga College Chapel, on March 2. During his homily, the archbishop said, “It is a joy for me to be with you today to ordain Patrick Corkery to the Diaconate. This is a day of hope. Any day when we…

  

• 

  Day of prayer for survivors of abuse happens this Friday

  March 6, 2025

  The annual Day of Prayer for Survivors and Victims of Abuse 2025 happens tomorrow, March 7, which is also the first Friday of Lent. On the day, blessed candles, also called ‘Candles of Atonement’, will be lit in parish churches and diocesan cathedrals across the country, “as a reminder to the faithful of the need…

  

BooksMore

• 

  Sweetening the pill of economic change in Ireland

  March 6, 2025

  The Carlow Sugar Factory: The Extraordinary Story of an Irish Industrial Icon, by Christopher Power …

• The impact of Asia on the first European travellers to reach India

• The journey of faith reflected in insightful and moving poems

• What we can really learn of the future from historians

• An important ‘Lost Film’ on Abraham Lincoln from 1915 with Irish connections

TV & RadioMore

• 

  Epic and dramatic tales of Faith

  March 6, 2025

  It’s a tale of beginnings and endings this week! I enjoyed the first episode of…

• Looking at both sides of the coin

• Discussions on the practical aspects of marriage

• The battle against the oblivion of Faith

• What are we exposing our children to?

FilmMore

• 

  Riotous exposition of French convent life

  February 27, 2025

  Have you ever seen a convent of nuns that comprises a former beauty queen, a…

• Art and commerce in the film world

• Touching evocation of broken lives

• Bevy of eclectic offerings kicks off 2025

• Olympic horror turned into expedient news story