Archbishop Eamon Martin launches Ireland’s digital Advent Calendar
Archbishop Eamon Martin has today launched the 2021 interactive digital Advent Calendar, which will go live on www.catholicbishops.ie on the first Sunday of Advent, 28 November next. Now in its eighth year, the unique digital Advent Calendar offers resources for the parish, school and for families which can be accessed behind a virtual door each […]
Vatican releases theme of Pope’s message for the 55th World Peace Day on 1 January 2022
The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development has released the theme of the next World Peace Day Message to be held on 1 January 2022, as “Education, work and dialogue between generations: tools for building lasting peace”. In its communiqué the Dicastery writes that “Pope Francis thus identifies three vast contexts today in full mutation, to […]
Pope Francis tells young people to dream and take a bite out of life with Jesus in their heart
During Mass celebrated in St Peter’s Basilica on Sunday, on the occasion of the diocesan World Youth Day and the Solemnity of Christ the King, Pope Francis Pope invited young people to “stand upright while everything is falling apart”, to be courageous in going “against the tide”, “without shortcuts, without falsehood”. Taking his cue from […]