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June 28, 2023

Catholicism still runs deep in Ireland

June 28, 2023

Earlier this year, the Irish bishops launched a Year of Vocations to the Diocesan Priesthood, a hopeful endeavour given the collapse in vocations in the last couple of decades. As Fr Michael Collins points out in this issue, the national seminary at Maynooth, once home to 500 seminarians, now has 20: men whose vocations have

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