‘He was an ordinary boy playing video games’ – How millennial Saint Carlo Acutis is winning over Ireland’s Gen Z In Ireland and Britain the popular narrative around Catholicism is one of ‘decline and fall’. But does the popularity of the millennial saint Carlo Acutis and other recent reports of growing interest ...

‘He was an ordinary boy playing video games’ – How millennial Saint #CarloAcutis is winning over Ireland’s #GenZ

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How much influence will Irish clergy have in the selection of the new pope at conclave? The chimney is up. Vatican workers have installed a temporary funnel on the 15th-century Sistine Chapel in advance of the opening of the papal conclave tomorrow.

How much influence will Irish clergy have in the selection of the new pope at conclave?
My view in today's @independent.ie #conclave #IrishCatholicism #newpope
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Priests ‘sitting ducks’ for accusatory and defamatory letters from parishioners over cuts to services, says leader of clerics’ body Priests are “sitting ducks” for accusatory and even defamatory letters from parishioners disgruntled over the withdrawal of church services by an increasingly stretched clergy, a leader of the Associa...

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Friary closes after 750 years due to lack of vocations - The Tablet A last-minute sit-in at Clonmel Friary in Ireland failed to prevent its closure after 750 years.

#Franciscan Friary in #Clonmel closes after 750 years due to lack of vocations - in this week's issue of @thetablet.bsky.social
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