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Sunday Mass in every church to become a thing of the past, Dublin Archbishop says Future of Catholic Church ‘must be different’, and active participation of laity is ‘essential’, says Dermot Farrell Tue, Feb 2, 2021, 14:14 Updated: Tue, Feb 2, 2021, 18:25   Dublin’s new Catholic Archbishop has said celebration of Sunday Mass in every church will become a thing of the past and a declining priesthood will require a greater role for lay leadership. In a interview on the day of ...

Welcome Archbishop Farrell The Mater Dei Centre for Catholic Education (MDCCE) warmly welcomes the appointment of Archbishop Dermot Farrell as the new Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland. We also offer our very best wishes to Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, who established the Centre in conjunction with DCU, on his retirement. Archbishop Farrell’s installation as leader of the Catholic Church in Dublin is planned for 2 nd February 2021. Archbishop Farrell is from Castletown-Geoghegan in C...

  The Bon Secours sisters, who ran the mother and baby home at Tuam, yesterday yesterday offered “profound apologies” and acknowledged that children were buried in a “disrespectful and unacceptable way”. The order said it did “not live up” to its Christianity when running the Co Galway facility between 1925 and 1961. The congregation offered “profound apologies to all the women and children” of the home, to their families and to the people of the countr...

Archbishop Eamon Martin noted the report said people with information about the burial of children born in the homes may not have come forward, and he appealed for them to do so. “All burial grounds should be identified and appropriately marked so that the deceased and their families will be recognized and never be forgotten,” he said. The report uncovered “disturbing and painful truths about our past”, and exposed the “culture of isolation, secrecy and social ostracizi...

Catholic Archbishop-elect of Dublin prepares for major reorganisation Dermot Farrell assures change will follow consultation with priests and parishioners Sat, Jan 2, 2021, 01:00 Listen now 4:10 Archbishop-elect Dermot Farrell of Dublin believes Pope Francis has given Catholics ‘a great lead’ on homosexuality. Photograph: Alan Betson Your Web Browser may be out of date. If you are using Internet Explorer 9, 10 or 11 our Audio player will not work properly.   With half of Dublin’s pri...

Patsy McGarry Religious Affairs Correspondent Patsy McGarry has been Religious Affairs Correspondent of The Irish Times since 1997 and has been with the newspaper since 1994. Prior to that he reported for Magill magazine, the Irish Press, the Irish Independent, and Sunday Independent. He was awarded a national journalism award for political comment and analysis in 1993 and the European religion writer of the year award in 1998. Author of three books, the most recent a biography of former Presi...