A CLONARD priest is set to publish his first novel this month after being inspired to take up writing. Fr Stephen Thomas, a ...

The annual Clonard Novena in Belfast will return this week with in-person masses for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic. The nine-day Catholic religious event in west Belfast attracts around ...

Clonard Church and Monastery has stood in west Belfast for almost 100 years. The building has been a focal point for people expressing and sharing faith —and a backdrop for the beginning of the peace ...

Redemptorist Father John Hanna in the library of Clonard Monastery in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which hosted the peace talks leading to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. (Credit: Claire Giangravè.) ...

Hundreds attended the first day of the annual Clonard Novena in west Belfast with thousands expected over the next nine days. Held in honour of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, the Novena consists of six ...

For more than a century, Clonard Monastery has stood in the heart of west Belfast and like many old buildings, it fell victim to the ravages of time. But now a four-year multi-million pound ...

Tributes have been paid to a priest in west Belfast who died after a long illness shortly before the election of a new Pope in Rome. A notice from Clonard Monastery on Friday morning confirmed the ...

Rachel Mulcahy, a “fake nun” who has been spotted dancing in the streets of Dublin and Belfast in recent weeks, has been served an injunction to stay at least 150 yards away from Clonard Monastery in ...

A fake nun banned by a court from going within 150 yards of a monastery says she is praying for its parishioners. Rachel Mulcahy was served with an interim injunction after priests at Clonard ...

She later said three “Hail, Marys” and an “Our Father” to repent. An Irish woman posing as a nun got banned from a monastery for her antics. The Belfast Telegraph reports how Rachel Mulcahy disrupted ...

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