CARE FOR CREATION AND BUILD A BETTER WORLD The Laudato Si’ 5 week training programme commencing in April 2024 will equip you with the knowledge and skills to become a certified Laudato Si’ Animator in your parish community.  To learn more and to register: www.laudatosianimators.org

  The latest issue of the Sharing the Good News weekly e-Zine for parishes and dioceses from the Catholic Communications Office of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference may be accessed from the following link: www.catholicnews.ie/?na=view&id=74

Bishop Martin’s Statement on the Centenary of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary – 7th March 2024: We give thanks today as we celebrate the Centenary of Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary (MSHR’s).  The pioneering members of the MSHR’s were among the first women missionary...

Members of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference gathered this week for their Spring 2024 General Meeting in Columba Centre of Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth.  The President of the Conference is Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, and the Vice-President is Archbishop Dermot Farrell of Dublin. The main issues discussed by bishops during their meeting included: ‘Let...

  On the second day of the Spring General Meeting of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference in Maynooth, bishops call for an urgent and complete ceasefire in Gaza, and an immediate end to the daily horror of killing, wounding and destruction of property in the Holy Land.  Please see the statement of the Bishops’ Conference...

“Go out to the whole world, proclaim the Good News to all creation” Mark 16:16 The Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary were founded by Bishop Joseph Shanahan, C.S.Sp. in 1924. The Sisters were welcomed by Bishop Patrick Finnegan of Kilmore Diocese and the people of the parishes of Killeshandra and Kildallan...

This October, for the first time, the sacred relics of renowned 7th century Irish martyr, Saint Kilian, will return to his home county of Cavan from Würzburg in Germany.   This major religious and civic event is being organised in partnership between the Diocese of Kilmore, the Parish of Mullagh, and Cavan County Council.  The historic...

  The latest issue of the Sharing the Good News weekly e-Zine for parishes and dioceses from the Catholic Communications Office of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference may be accessed from the following link: www.catholicnews.ie/?na=view&id=73

Tuesday 12 March 2024 will mark the 150th Anniversary of the opening of the iconic building which served as the original Saint Patrick’s College in Cavan and is now the base for the Kilmore Diocesan Pastoral Centre. Bishop Martin Hayes will be the principal celebrant of a special Mass in the Cathedral of Saint Patrick & Saint...

  The latest issue of the Sharing the Good News weekly e-Zine for parishes and dioceses from the Catholic Communications Office of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference may be accessed from the following link: www.catholicnews.ie/?na=view&id=72