You are invited to attend an information evening on the new ‘Programme of Formation for Lay Pastoral Ministry and Leadership’ which will be offered in the Diocese of Limerick next year.

It was in 1921, during the papacy of Pope Benedict XV (1914-22; he beatified Oliver Plunkett in 1920) that the Feast of All the Saints of Ireland was instituted.

Huge thanks to everyone for a wonderful gathering at our Holy Halloween Event last night in the Diocesan Centre

Ní imithe uainn atá siad, ach imithe romhainn.
They are not gone from us, but gone before us.

A wonderful souvenir calendar of historic Limerick Diocesan churches is now available.

An ecumenical prayer service at St Patrick's Church on Donegall Street in Belfast was one of the highlights of last week's gathering of international church leaders in Northern Ireland. Picture by Declan Roughan

On Wednesday 23rd October, a large crowd gathered in Ballybrown Parish Resource Centre for a talk given by Dr. Matthew Potter about John Henry Newman. This was followed by Mass celebrated by Bishop Fintan Monahan in Saint Joseph's Church Ballybrown.

We share a reflection by Bishop Robert Barron on the virtuous life of Pope Saint John Paul II, the heroic pope.