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Carndonagh Jesuit ordained
05.07.09
CARNDONAGH man Cathal
Doherty was recently ordained to the priesthood in
St Francis Xavier’s Church in Gardiner Street,
Dublin. The 42 year-old was ordained into the Jesuit
order by Dr Diarmuid Martin, the Archbishop of
Dublin on Friday, June 26 and celebrated his first
Mass at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Carndonagh
the following Monday.
Bus and carloads of family and friends from
Carndonagh travelled to Dublin for the ordination
and Fr Cathal’s mother Bridie described the ceremony
as being “out of this world”. |
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Large crowds turned out
to greet Fr Doherty on his return to Carndonagh on
Sunday night and he was escorted into the Diamond by
local Gardaí and members of the local scout troop.
“There were huge crowds out to greet him all the way
from Muff to Carn and the weather was so kind that
people lingered in the Diamond afterwards enjoying
the refreshments and pleasant weather,” she said.
A son of Bridie and Neil Doherty of the Diamond in
Carn, Fr Doherty lectured in UCD before deciding to
train as a Jesuit.
He has spent the past seven years training in
Birmingham, Dublin |
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and Paris. From
September he will teach languages at Coláiste
Iognáid in Galway. (Inishowen
Independent) |
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