The pledge has been added for children making their confirmation from this year onwards. An updated Confirmation pledge will include ‘no vaping’ before the age of 18. The Confirmation Pledge, which already exists for drinking alcohol, smoking and taking drugs, has been reworded to include a promise not to vape before the age of 18. […]

1 month ago

‘Only in Ireland’ With Oasis returning to Dublin for the first time in 17 years, selling out two Croke Park shows, the Oasis buzz was big in Ireland over the weekend. One Irish wedding even got a very special rendition of maybe the band’s most iconic hit, Wonderwall, right at the altar. Longford’s Father Joe […]

7 months ago

Deeds or words? Twenty years since the state first apologised to victims of child sex abuse and a decade after the Ryan Report revealed the “horror and terror” endured by those in Ireland’s religious institutions, how can we measure how the state responded to those who suffered? This month, a fund  for survivors of abuse […]

7 years ago

You might Noah someone that would fancy this. The Church of England has installed a helter skelter slide in Norwich Cathedral. The 55-foot-tall attraction is available for the public to use until 18 August and it costs £2 a ride. The official listing states that the attraction was built in order to “give people the […]

7 years ago

Collection baskets may soon become a thing of the past. If you’ve ever had to awkwardly pass an empty collection basket on to the person beside you while sat in mass, you’ll know how uncomfortable it can be. Being viewed by those around you as a cheapskate, when, in reality, you just didn’t remember to […]

7 years ago

He has stated that it is up to Catholics to fight the devil back. A month after Pope Francis wrote an open letter to all Catholics regarding the “the abuse of power and of conscience at the hands of priests over a period of approximately seventy years” within the church, he has now laid the […]

8 years ago