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2 weeks ago | 
independent.ie | Padraig Byrne |Sarah Mac Donald |Sarah O'Mahony
Comiskey, who died yesterday at the age of 89, will be buried on Thursday, May 1, at 1pm in the Church of the Sacred Heart, St Johns Drive, Clondalkin, Dublin. He died early Monday morning in the Louth County Hospital, Dundalk, predeceased by his parents, two sisters and seven brothers.
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2 weeks ago | 
independent.ie | Padraig Byrne |Sarah Mac Donald |Sarah O'Mahony
Comiskey, who died yesterday at the age of 89, will be buried on Thursday, May 1, at 1pm in the Church of the Sacred Heart, St Johns Drive, Clondalkin, Dublin. The Monaghan native retreated from public life following the publication of the damning Ferns Report which outlined a catalogue of child sex abuse in the diocese over a period of forty years. Bishop Comiskey passed away early Monday morning in the Louth County Hospital, Dundalk, predeceased by his parents, two sisters and seven brothers.
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2 weeks ago | 
independent.ie | Padraig Byrne |Sarah Mac Donald
The Monaghan native retreated from public life following the publication of the damning Ferns Report which outlined a catalogue of child sex abuse in the diocese over a period of forty years. It emerged that Bishop Comiskey had failed to protect children from paedophile priests and failed to report allegations that Fr Sean Fortune had abused a number of children. The report found Comiskey’s investigation into the rape of children by his clergy was "an inappropriate and inadequate response".
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1 month ago | 
detroitcatholic.com | Sarah Mac Donald |Charles Fox |Greg Erlandson
DUBLIN (OSV News) ─ In a powerful courtroom moment just before Holy Week, Irish Army chaplain Father Paul Murphy forgave the radicalized teenager who tried to kill him in a 2024 knife attack. "I am in the business of forgiveness," Father Murphy told the Central Criminal Court in Dublin April 10, a week ahead of Holy Thursday, as he spoke before the teenager who attempted to kill him in a shocking knife attack outside Renmore Barracks in Irish Galway.
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1 month ago | 
thetablet.co.uk | Ruth Gledhill |Ellen Teague |Sarah Mac Donald
The singer Adeniké Adewale is running the London Marathon on 27 April to raise funds for Cafod. Adewale, who is playing the role of Whitney Houston in the show Queen of the Night, said: “It is going to be an intense weekend … running the marathon will be the toughest physical challenge of my life.”She added: “My favourite place to run is in nature, in the early morning.
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2 months ago | 
thetablet.co.uk | Ruth Gledhill |Ellen Teague |Sarah Mac Donald
Holiness is found not just in grand gestures but in the small, daily acts of kindness, generosity, and faithfulness that draw people closer to God and to one another, according to the Archbishop of Cardiff-Menevia Mark O’Toole.
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2 months ago | 
thetablet.co.uk | Ruth Gledhill |Ellen Teague |Sarah Mac Donald
A carved altar designed for a Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle in 1942 has been moved to St Aidan’s Catholic Church on Lindisfarne. The architect Robert Burke created the wooden altar, reredos and panelling for Bishop Joseph McCormack upon his move from Tynemouth to East Denton Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne. Stephen Wright, the current bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, said the altar was too large to fit into the current episcopal residence in Benton, North Tyneside.
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2 months ago | 
thetablet.co.uk | Ruth Gledhill |Ellen Teague |Sarah Mac Donald
A rare illuminated medieval scroll known as an Arma Christi, featuring the prayer poem O Vernicle, has been discovered at York’s Bar Convent. Up until now, just ten copies were known to have survived the Reformation in the 1540s and the outlawing of Catholicism under Elizabeth The Bar Convent Arma Christi is thought to be one of the last examples ever made, dating from around 1475. The responses, written in red, show it was probably used in communal worship as well as private prayer.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
msn.com | Sarah Mac Donald
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
independent.ie | Sarah Mac Donald
Pat O’Gorman told the Irish Independent: “We can’t understand why they are not communicating with us. We haven’t done anything wrong.”However, in a statement the Franciscans said it was with “great disappointment” they learned that individuals had “illegally occupied” the friary church. “Such occupation constitutes trespass onto property and also presents serious health and safety concerns.”They want the protesters to vacate the building and turn over the keys.
