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Priest shortage forces Irish diocese to rely on laity to preside over funerals
More than 40 laymen and laywomen in the Clogher Diocese in the north of Ireland will soon begin presiding over funeral liturgies amid a shortage of priests. Source: CNA.
Irish bishops plan pastoral letter to urge return to Mass
Concern that attendances at Mass have not returned to pre-pandemic levels has prompted the Irish bishops to prepare a special pastoral letter on Sunday Mass. Source: The Tablet.
Macron to invite Pope to reopening of Notre Dame
French President Emmanuel Macron visited the newly erected spire of Notre Dame de Paris on Friday, one year before the cathedral is due to reopen on December 8 next year. Source: The Tablet.
Court rules government offices in EU can ban wearing of religious symbols
A new ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union allows member states to prohibit the wearing of religious symbols or clothing by employees in public institutions. Source: Aleteia.
Class trip to see musical blocked by France’s secularism laws
The producer of a popular French musical about St Bernadette Soubirous has filed an appeal against an official ruling that a state school cannot use a free cultural pass for a class trip to his show because the topic violated France’s secularism laws. Source: The Tablet.
Police blame ‘far-right hooligans’ for riot after Dublin stabbings
Police in Ireland have arrested 34 people following a riot in Dublin last week that erupted following a knife attack outside a Catholic primary school, leaving three children and a woman injured, two of them critically. Source: The Tablet.
Catholics call for opening of canonisation cause for slain sacristan
Catholics in the southern Spanish Diocese of Cádiz and Ceuta are calling for the Church to promote the canonisation cause of Diego Valencia, a sacristan who was murdered by a Muslim extremist in January. Source: CNA.Â
Church alarmed by Macron’s abortion amendment for French constitution
The Church in France has voiced alarm at President Emmanuel Macron’s announcement that France would add the right to abortion into its constitution next year. Source: The Tablet.
‘You are not alone,’ Pope tells women who escaped the Mafia
Pope Francis yesterday encouraged a group of women who escaped criminal organisations in Italy to keep fighting despite fear and to know they are not alone. Source: CNA.