Diocesan News
Environmental insights: A thriving garden
With the help of a Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Award, Magheralin, outside Lurgan, Co. Down, has created a beautiful garden in its church grounds.
With the help of a Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Award, Magheralin, outside Lurgan, Co. Down, has created a beautiful garden in its church grounds.
Among the news Bishop Paul Colton brought back from the Lambeth Conference was that of the inauguration of the Anglican Communion Forest.
It’s not every day that the Taoiseach turns up to celebrate the 303rd birthday of your school. But for pupils of Castleknock National School in Dublin that’s exactly what happened last Wednesday morning (June 28) when Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Minister Jack Chambers joined them on their last day of the school year.
The Diocese of Derry and Raphoe is to get its first female Dean following the appointment of the Rev Liz Fitzgerald as Rector of the Grouped Parishes of Raphoe, Raymochy and Clonleigh and Dean of St Eunan’s Cathedral.
Two recipients of King’s Birthday Honours in Clogher Diocese are involved in their churches and charities in the local community.
There was a mood of celebration and tremendous thankfulness in Derg Parish Church last Thursday evening as the Rev Claire Henderson was ordained priest by the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, the Rt Rev Andrew Forster.
On Saturday, 10th June 2023, the third seminar of the Diocesan MindMatters programme was held at the Carraig Centre in Ballincollig, Carrigrohane Union of Parishes.
A short video to show you all the parts of Derry and Raphoe’s new Toolbox resource to encourage good mental health and well–being.
Dublin City Interfaith Forum (DCIF) has called on people to continue to welcome refugees and asylum seekers with love and compassion and has called on the Government to take steps to ensure that work continues to make Ireland a safe, inclusive and diverse country of welcome.
The Cork, Cloyne and Ross Diocesan Synod met in Rosscarbery, Co. Cork, on Saturday (17th June) with Bishop Paul Colton delivering the Presidential Address.