CLONARD Monastery in west Belfast is to welcome a new rector, who is a native of Co Down. Fr Brendan Kelly, who is originally from Saul near Downpatrick, is to take up the new role in May. The cleric ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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