Month: June 2015

Pictured in maynooth are (standing from left): Fr Michael McCullagh, Rev. Conor McGee, Fr Michael Mullaney, Rev. Kevin Malcolmson, Msgr Hugh Connolly, Rev. Vincent Stapleton, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, Rev. Michael Geraghty, Rev. Damien Quigley, Rev. Patrick Nugent, Rev. Noel Weir, Fr Paul Prior, Fr Willie Reynolds and Fr Michael Collins. (Seated from left) Rev. John…

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Sinn Féin has joined forces with Alliance and the Green Party to block an attempt at tightening Northern Ireland’s abortion law. The parties jointly submitted a ‘petition of concern’ against a DUP amendment to the Justice Bill which was debated in the Assembly on Tuesday. The amendment would have made anyone who ended the life…

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The Dáil should take the lead of the Northern Ireland Assembly and criminalise those who pay for sex, a leading charity that deals with exploited women has said. The Human Trafficking and Exploitation Act 2015, introduced in the North following Lord Maurice Morrow’s Bill and supported 81-10 in Stormont, includes a clause making the purchase…

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Dear Editor, Congratulations on your special issue of the paper (IC 21/05/2015) celebrating the life and legacy of Archbishop Oscar Romero. The monsignor was an incredible inspiration and his beatification is a well-deserved, and long-time coming, recognition of his bravery and compassion in speaking out against violence and injustice, and spreading the Gospel message of…

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Everyone longs to know something that’s secret, to know something that others don’t know, but that you know, and the knowledge of which gives you some insight and advantage over others who are outside the inner-circle of that secret. It has always been so. Historically this is called ‘Gnosticism’, which forever makes an appearance in…

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