• Apply now for MGA Emerging Leaders Fellowship

    We are seeking expressions of interest for Cohort 5 of the MGA Emerging Leaders Fellowship (2025-2026). This fully funded international leadership program offers a unique opportunity for ten women to advance justice in their communities and forge meaningful connections across the Mercy World.

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  • Happy New Year from MIA

    The Young Mercy Leaders’ Pilgrimage is an opportunity for second level students to gather together in Mercy International Centre in Dublin for a journey of empowerment and leadership from 1st to 4th of July. It offers the opportunity to connect with other students from Mercy schools and to learn about Catherine McAuley, foundress of the Sisters of Mercy.

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  • Happy New Year from MIA

    As we begin the new year, we wanted to share this short reflection with you on what Mercy is. We are using some of the phrases from a Mercy Spiral from artwork created for the opening of Mercy International Centre in 1994. Happy New Year!

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  • World Day of Prayer for Peace

    The World Day of Prayer for Peace is celebrated today, 1 January 2025 on the theme 'Forgive us our trespasses: grant us your peace.'

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  • Mercy Heritage - Preservica online archive

    We have opened up our Mercy Heritage using an online tool called Preservica. This tool has allowed us to store, catalogue, preserve and make available our archival material.

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Catherine McAuley

Catherine McAuley was born in Dublin, Ireland, in September, 1778. In 1824 she used her inheritance from an Irish couple she had served for twenty years to build a large House of Mercy on Baggot Street, Dublin in response to the needs of the poor of Dublin. Today that house is known as Mercy International Centre and is home to the Mercy family from all over the world.

Opening Doors

Opening Doors focuses on consulting with those who are actively seeking to be involved in the life of Mercy International and creating channels through which people of Mercy can participate more actively in the life of the Association.