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1.- Irish bishops choose woman to head steering group for synodal pathway
By Michael Kelly, . Published: 06/18/2021 Section: World

DUBLIN (CNS) -- The Irish Catholic bishops have chosen a laywoman to head preparations for a national synod, due to be held in the next five years. Nicola Brady has worked in a number of peace-building roles, both nationally and internationally, and currently works on building relations between the...

2.- Irish Pastoral Center promotes culture and community across generations
By Jacqueline Tetrault Pilot Staff. Published: 03/12/2021 Section: Local

DORCHESTER -- From visiting the incarcerated to holding a preschool playgroup and assisting exchange students to organizing community events, the Irish Pastoral Center aims to serve the spiritual, social, and cultural needs of the local Irish community. The Irish Pastoral Center (IPC), which calls ...

3.- Obituary: Father Gerard J. O'Meara, St. James Society missionary in Peru
By Father Robert M. O'Grady Pilot Staff. Published: 10/23/2020 Section: Obituary

"He's the unknown Boston priest," said Merrimack Regional Bishop Robert Hennessey who then immediately added "He was just an outstanding priest; when I was a new missionary even in a different country -- I was in Bolivia, he in Peru -- he contacted and encouraged me." Father Gerard J. O'Meara was b...

4.- Maine bishop's diocesan travels strengthening bond with faithful, priests
Published: 09/12/2019 Section: Nation

RANGELEY, Maine (CNS) -- "Do you know why this is a great day?" Portland Bishop Robert P. Deeley asked the young children, who wore nervous but beaming smiles, as a full assembly looked on at St. Luke Church in Rangeley. "We will have Communion," answered Elijah. "And be confirmed," added Elucia. ...

5.- Irish bishops urge Catholics to 'resist' country's new abortion law
By Michael Kelly. Published: 01/04/2019 Section: World

DUBLIN (CNS) -- The primate of All-Ireland insisted that the country's new abortion law that took effect Jan. 1 has "no moral force" and it "must be resisted" by Catholics. Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, Northern Ireland, who also is president of the Irish bishops' conference, said in a message...

6.- Cardinal celebrates St. James Society anniversary with missionaries in Peru
By Maureen Crowley Heil Special to The Pilot. Published: 02/09/2018 Section: Local

LIMA, Peru -- The year was 1955 and Pope Pius XII called for more missionaries to be sent to South America. He followed this call in 1958 by establishing the Pontifical Council for Latin America. Pope Pius was concerned that a priest shortage in South America would hinder the growth of the faith in ...

7.- Hall of Fame meanderings
By Clark Booth. Published: 08/28/2015 Section: Opinion

It's been a happy summer so far for baseball and with a potentially rousing stretch run in the works it could actually get better. Even the all-star game was a cut above recent form although the bar for that regrettably tainted event has never been lower. No matter! Baseball's annual mid-summer Hal...

8.- From Cardinal Seán's blog
Published: 02/03/2012 Section: Local

On Friday (1/20), I celebrated the funeral Mass of Sister Manuela Vencela at St. Anthony's Church, near Catholic University. Auxiliary Bishop Francisco Gonzalez was there along with many priests, religious and lay people who had known sister during the nearly four decades she had worked with the His...

9.- Downsizing-to-grow in Ireland
By George Weigel. Published: 12/02/2011 Section: Opinion

Catholicism is in crisis all over Old Europe. Nowhere is that crisis more pronounced than in Ireland, where clerical corruption and disastrous episcopal leadership have collided with rank political expediency and a rabidly anticlerical media to produce a perfect storm of ecclesiastical meltdown. The...

10.- Irish Pastoral Centre has new Dorchester home
By Justin Bell. Published: 09/16/2011 Section: Local

DORCHESTER -- For the last 24 years, the Irish Pastoral Centre has served Irish immigrants and Irish-Americans as a hub for cultural, spiritual and practical matters -- such as immigration advice and counseling. But perhaps its first impression, to scores of immigrants, has been a warm welcome. On ...

11.- Cultural clashes and impoverished secularism
By Father John Flynn, LC. Published: 02/01/2008 Section: Local

ROME (Zenit) -- The intolerance of radical secularism was well illustrated in the protests that led Pope Benedict XVI to cancel his planned visit and speech at Rome's La Sapienza University. Objections to the pope's presence ranged from his alleged hostility to science and Galileo to more specifical...

12.- Meet our seminarians: Sean Maher
Published: 09/14/2007 Section: Local

Home Country: Ireland. Seminary: St. John's Seminary.High School: St. Michael's, Lis. Limerick Tutorial Center. College: University of Limerick. Hobbies: Reading, Gaelic football, soccer When was the first time you thought of priesthood? Perhaps as a young child -- I have two uncles (both brothers...

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