Chai Brady

Ireland

Writer and Journalist at Irish Independent

Deputy Editor at The Irish Catholic. News and features writer, multimedia journalist: photography/videography. Views my own etc...

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‘Religious belief is good for you’ says Harvard experts

2 weeks ago | irishcatholic.com | Chai Brady

‘Religious belief is good for you’ says Harvard experts Confirmation candidate Ayden Morocho kneels in prayer as his sponsor Grace Esposito stands behind him during aconfirmation Mass May 5, 2022, at Holy Family Church in Queens, New York.
Ireland to be re-consecrated to Sacred Heart at Knock Shrine

2 weeks ago | irishcatholic.com | Chai Brady

Ireland will be nationally re-consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus on Sunday June 22 at Knock Shrine, Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan of Waterford and Lismore has announced in a pastoral letter. The re-consecration marks the 350th anniversary of the first apparition of the Sacred Heart to St Margaret Mary Alacoque. Ireland was the first country to be consecrated to the Sacred Heart in 1873.
Ombudsman receives hundreds of complaints over SPHE content

3 weeks ago | irishcatholic.com | Chai Brady

Ombudsman receives hundreds of complaints over SPHE content More than 370 complaints expressing concern over new Social Personal and Health Education (SPHE) content were received by the Ombudsman for Children’s Office last year, according to a new report. SPHE includes sex education. The Ombudsman stated in its annual report that the complaints were part of a “campaign”.
President hails Irish Jesuits who bring ‘hope’ and recalls slain missionaries

1 month ago | irishcatholic.com | Chai Brady

The President of Ireland has congratulated a Jesuit charity for its long-standing commitment to justice and the poor even when members became “targets of State and non-State violence” and recalled his own encounters with Jesuits who were later murdered. President Michael D. Higgins said that Jesuit projects of “literacy, cooperation and gender have been transformative” in…
Ireland’s Faith crisis is opening door to demons, exorcist warns

1 month ago | irishcatholic.com | Chai Brady

Ireland’s Faith crisis is opening door to demons, exorcist warns The statue of Archangel Michael on Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome.
New poll shows huge opportunity for Church to reach young people

1 month ago | irishcatholic.com | Chai Brady

A leading professor in the sociology of religion has said that the Church in Ireland has a “great opportunity” to bring the message of the Gospel and Christianity in an attractive way to new generations who “search for meaning” online. Speaking to The Irish Catholic after the release of an Amárach poll showing a disconnect between young people and the Church, Gladys Ganiel, Professor in the Sociology of Religion at Queen’s University Belfast, said she saw opportunity.
How I learned to love the Canticle and not the Bomb

1 month ago | irishcatholic.com | Chai Brady

How I learned to love the Canticle and not the Bomb Pope Francis delivers a message about nuclear weapons at Atomic Bomb Hypocenter Park in Nagasaki, Japan, in this November 24, 2019, file photo. Photo: CNS/Paul Haring “Soon the sun will set” — said Benjamin. “Is that prophecy?
Charity welcomes targeting of ‘sex for rent’

1 month ago | irishcatholic.com | Chai Brady

Charity welcomes targeting of ‘sex for rent’ Legislation aimed at tackling the “appalling practice” of seeking sex in lieu of rent has been welcomed by an Irish charity who support women impacted by sexual exploitation. Ruhama told The Irish Catholic that the legislation being drafted was “long awaited”, and the issue has been exacerbated by the housing crisis.
Hopes high for a third Ireland papal visit

1 month ago | irishcatholic.com | Chai Brady

Hopes high for a third Ireland papal visit Pope Leo XIV speaks to representatives of the media who covered his election in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican May 12, 2025. Photo: CNS/Lola Gomez.
‘The risk of forgiveness paid off’

1 month ago | irishcatholic.com | Chai Brady

‘The risk of forgiveness paid off’ Fr Paul Murphy is pictured in the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France during the annual military pilgrimage to the French shrine In an undated photograph. In the courtroom just before Holy Week, the Irish Defence Force chaplain forgave the radicalised teenager who tried to kill him in a 2024 knife attack.