Theme of Trócaire’s Lenten Campaign 2014 – ‘Water’ This year’s Trócaire Lenten campaign is about the global water crisis. There are 1.1 billion people in our world who are living without access to a reliable source of water. Nine year old Enestina Muyeye, the young girl featured on this year’s Trócaire box, comes from a […]

Catholic Schools Week 2014: ‘Places of Faith and Learning’ Catholic Schools Week (CSW) will be celebrated between Sunday, 26th January and Saturday, 1st February.   This year’s theme is ‘Catholic Schools – Places of Faith and Learning‘.  This year‟s theme was chosen to highlight that all learning takes place in a values context.  Catholic Schools Week […]

In his first general audience of 2014, Pope Francis began a new series of catechesis on the Sacraments, starting with Baptism. Baptism is the Sacrament “on which our faith is based, and which grafts us to Christ and His Church, as living members. Together with the Eucharist and Confirmation it forms the so-called ‘Christian initiation,’ […]

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is traditionally observed from the 18th to the 25th January – the octave of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. Its inauguration in Dublin will take place at an interdenominational Service in St. Fintan’s Roman Catholic Church, Sutton, Dublin 13 on Sunday, 19th January at 8.00pm.  Canon Desmond Sinnamon […]

Wednesday January 1st 2014 was World Day of Peace.  The theme chosen by the Holy Father was: Fraternity – the Foundation and Pathway to Peace. To read the Pope’s Message for World Day of Peace please click here