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
