Lucan principal reflects on a different Catholic Schools Week for students and staff

Reflecting on Catholic School’s Week 2021 in today’s Irish News, Bernadette Fitzgerald, secondary school principal of Saint Joseph’s in Lucan, Co Dublin, said “The sudden shift to remote teaching and learning – and the organisation of education around kitchen tables and digital devices – occurred overnight. It forced us to recreate, in an online space, […]

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Pope says remembering is an expression of humanity

At his General Audience on Wednesday, Pope Francis marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day, observed on the anniversary of the liberation of Nazi concentration and extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Holy Father said, “Today we commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and all those persecuted and deported by the Nazi regime.” “Remembering is an expression of […]

Official theme song for World Youth Day 2023 released

The official theme song of World Youth Day (WYD) 2023, scheduled to take place in Lisbon, Portugal, was released on Wednesday 27 January, exactly two years since the announcement of the city chosen by Pope Francis to host the next world meeting for young people. Titled Há Pressa no Ar (There’s a rush in the […]

Bishop Fintan Monahan to speak at the Grandparents’ Faith Café

Bishop Fintan Monahan, Bishop of Killaloe, will be the guest speaker for the February Grandparents’ Faith Café, a new initiative of the Catholic Grandparents Association (CGA), which is taking place online once a month via Zoom. Bishop Monahan will speak on the theme ‘Grandparents as Influencers’.  Launching the initiative last December, Catherine Wiley, Founder of the […]