Mags GarganDear Editor, In the light of current media concerns with education in the State, some elementary facts need to be outlined. 1. Most Catholic schools were built on land donated by Catholics; the capital costs of building these schools were borne by Catholics 2. The maintenance and running costs of these schools is partly met…
Month: September 2014
At home with God
Breige O’Hare tells Mary O’Donnell about her search for spiritual direction
A tale with a tender heart
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
Musicians tune up for ‘Trad for Trócaire’
People across the country are invited to celebrate Ireland’s musical culture by supporting a local ‘Trad for Trócaire’ session in their neighbourhood.
Church is prepared to mount constitutional challenge if stripped of ethos rights
Cathal BarrySection 37 permits faith-based organisations to employ only those who will uphold their religious ethos.
NET Ministries Ireland’s commissioning Mass
The focus should be on what deacons are, not what they do
How has a bishop implementing a decision of Vatican II become controversial, asks Bro. Martin Browne OSB
Persecution of Christians ‘intolerable’ – Flanagan
The minister also pointed out that his department had received a publication listing 60 countries where Christians were persecuted
Pope’s advisers start first draft toward document overhauling Vatican
Pope Francis’ international Council of Cardinals has begun major reform of the Vatican bureaucracy