The “climate change pope” Pope Francis also known as the “pope of the poor” returned to Spanish-speaking South America for the first time as pontiff yesterday, stressing the importance of protecting the needy and the environment from exploitation and – in a nation whose president was booed as his vehicle …
Catholic bishops’ spokesman on migration, Bishop John Kirby has called on the Irish Government to take more of the Mediterranean migrants rescued from the sea off the coast of Italy. Speaking to the Irish Independent following the launch of a new book on the work of the Irish Emigrant Chaplaincy in …
The recent Pope Francis Encyclical on the environment and climate change is now available from the Abbey Bookshop in Limerick and at the Abbey Bookshop website. The controversial encyclical is openly critical of much of our modern throwaway lifestyle which shows little or no regard for poor people or the …