Bishop’s Summer Statement

Members of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference gathered this week at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, for their Summer 2026 General Meeting. Archbishop Farrell is the Vice-President of the Conference. Issues discussed during the meeting included:

  • Civil unrest in Belfast
  • Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical letter, Magnifica Humanitas, on humanity in the AI era
  • Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church
  • ‘Day for Life’ 2026 message: The Wonder of the Child in the Womb
  • Department of Education and Youth’s Primary Schools Survey
  • Synodality: in Ireland and Universally
  • New EU Envoy for FoRB outside the EU, and persecution of Christians in Nigeria
  • Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union
  • Trócaire: Ebola outbreak in DR Congo
  • TheWay.ie, progress on new unified digital platform to share the Good News
  • Supporting international priests ministering in Ireland
  • Maynooth Union annual celebration of milestone anniversaries of ordination classes

The full statement is available here

Summer Dues Appeal

BISHOP ROCHE ON THEWAY.IE

Bishop Donal Roche joined TheWay.ie to look back on his first two years as Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of Dublin and to reflect on the challenges facing the Church in Dublin. The video can be watched on YouTube.

Archbishop Farrell welcomes Pope Leo’s first encyclical

Palmerstown Active Retirement – June 2026 Events

Palmerstown Camera Club Annual Exhibition 12 – 14 Jun 2026

Upcoming Concerts in Archdioese

ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL, JUNE CHORAL LITURGIES

NEWMAN UNIVERSITY CHURCH – 05-Jun-26

To celebrate the end of a year of liturgies and music, the Newman Vocare Ensemble is having a summer concert featuring the best of from the liturgical year. The choir will sing favourites such as “Hallelujah Chorus” from Handel’s Messiah sung on Easter Sunday and “Let My Love Be Heard“ by Jake Runestad sung at our Remembrance Service, as well as new pieces to our choir especially for the concert like “Even When He is Silent” by Kim André Arnesen. “Heart Speaks to Heart” will be Friday, June 5, at 7pm in Newman University Church with special guests the Loreto College Junior School Choir and University Church Singers

General Admission is €15 and Student Admission is €10. Limited tickets will be available at the door so make sure to purchase yours. (Admission for children is free.) All ticket proceeds will be a direct donation to the upkeep of Newman University Church. Visit http://vocare.eventbrite.ie. Use code FRIEND for 20% off your ticket. There will be tickets available after Masses on May 17, May 24, and May 31. Limited tickets will be available at the door.

RE-JOYCE WITH PALESTRINA CHOIR – 16-Jun-26

A unique celebration of sacred music from Ulysses and other works by James Joyce, with The Palestrina Choir. Time: 7:30pm. Date: Bloomsday, June 16. Location: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Marlborough Street, Dublin 1.

This Bloomsday, experience a glorious evening of sacred music from Ulysses and other works by James Joyce. This special concert will explore the musical life of Joyce’s Dublin as well as Joycean links with both the Palestrina Choir and the Pro-Cathedral itself. Sit back and listen to readings from Joyce’s work and some of the most beautiful sacred music ever written including Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli, Mozart’s Twelfth Mass, and Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus. Don’t miss this incredible musical collaboration presented by Darina Gallagher, Director of the James Joyce Centre, and Blánaid Murphy, Director of the Palestrina Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral.