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Month: October 2014
Hospital chaplains face fresh threat
Cathal BarryFailure to fill vacant chaplain posts in Irish hospitals could force chaplaincy training centres here to close
Cardinal calls for no ‘doctrinal back-flips’ at the next family synod
Robert Duncan Looking ahead to the October 2015 world Synod of Bishops on the family, Cardinal George Pell said the task for Catholics “over the next 12 months” is to explain “the necessity of conversion, the nature of the Mass” and “the purity of heart the Scriptures require of us to receive Holy Communion”. Cardinal…
Ebola nurse thanks God and doctors for recovery
Nina Pham, a Dallas nurse, was the first person known to have contracted the Ebola virus in the United States
RTE launches new Once in a Lifetime season for November
RTÉ have launched new religious programming for the radio and television schedules in November. A new season of programmes on RTÉ One to mark November as the month of All Souls under the title ‘Once in a Lifetime’ will explore attitudes towards death in Ireland. As part of this, the documentary A Parting Gift secures…
Signs of a new spring for Egypt’s exhausted Christians
Paul KeenanIs the tide turning for Egypt’s Christians? If the Middle East contains any lessons over the last few years, it is that matters in the region can turn on a hair. Sadly, too, it has been instructive to watch the precarious fortunes of minority Christian communities whose long histories in nations have guaranteed them nothing…
Vocations are finally on the agenda
Michael KellySome dioceses are doing relatively well when it comes to vocations, others haven’t had a candidate in years
Watered-down doctrine will not attract a larger flock
Dear Editor, Since the inception of Pope Francis’ pontificate, there has been a well-intentioned attempt to restore the attractiveness of the Gospel for those to whom it has lost its sheen. However, this has played out as the soft-pedalling of the gravity of moral doctrine on human sexuality in a post-Vatican II spirit of Jesuitical…
Ireland’s workers up in arms?
The Irish Citizen Army by Ann Matthews (Mercier Press, €14.99/£11.99)
Time to challenge narrow thinking
Dear Editor, David Quinn’s article “Time for Church leaders to help students who have been silenced in our colleges” (IC 09/10/14), highlights the apparent intolerance for pro-life or Catholic views in our universities among student unions and the student body, and calls for Church leaders to support Christian students. To be openly Christian in universities…