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2 days ago | 
angelusnews.com | Sarah Mac Donald |Kate Scanlon |Hannah Brockhaus |Gerry Jackson
In rural Limerick, three teenage brothers are turning Lego into a tool for evangelization as Blessed Carlo Acutis continues to inspire a new generation of digital evangelists. In the small rural parish of Kilcornan in Irish Limerick County, the boys have produced a professional and instructive stop-motion animation film about the millennial saint. "We wanted to reach people of our own age," 16-year-old Louis Flynn explained to OSV News. "Carlo really inspired all three of us.
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1 week ago | 
thetablet.co.uk | Ruth Gledhill |Sarah Mac Donald |Ellen Teague
UK companies are outperforming global peers when it comes to tackling forced labour in their supply chains, as the UK marks 10 years since the landmark Modern Slavery Act, according to a new benchmark from investment manager CCLA. The aim of the benchmark, in which the 100 largest global companies are assessed, is to empower faith investors and institutions with a renewed attention to banish modern slavery. Global firms scored an average of 30/62, compared to 36/62 for UK companies.
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2 weeks ago | 
thetablet.co.uk | Ruth Gledhill |Ellen Teague |Sarah Mac Donald
Fr Dominic Robinson SJ, parish priest at Farm Street Jesuit Church in London, told a panel on exploring the moral and spiritual challenges of artificial intelligence, “We should not be fearful of AI.” First speaker at the Farm Street event, organised in collaboration with the Catholic Union, was Jen Copestake, a correspondent with CGTN Europe and a parishioner at Farm Street, who pointed to the growing use of AI and robotics in areas such as healthcare.
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3 weeks ago | 
thetablet.co.uk | Ruth Gledhill |Ellen Teague |Sarah Mac Donald
Migrants filled Westminster Cathedral on 5 May as the three London dioceses of Brentwood, Southwark and Westminster held the annual Migrants’ Mass. Celebrated by Archbishop George Stack, Emeritus of Cardiff, it was organised by the Justice and Peace Commissions, Caritas and ethnic chaplaincies of these dioceses.
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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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Mar 7, 2025 | 
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.
