Courtney McGrailDear Editor, Austen Ivereigh writing about the current Synod on the Family (IC 08/10/2015), quite rightly states that the backdrop to the synod is “the massive collapse across the western world of support for the Christian understanding of marriage in culture and now law – as Ireland, and most of our families have witnessed at…
Month: October 2015
Facilitating encounter and healing
Martin O'BrienCorrymeela leader Pádraig Ó Tuama tells Martin O’Brien about the reconciliation and peace-building organisation
Traveller community a microcosm of how we treat the vulnerable
Mags GarganClerics ministering to the Travelling community have said that Irish society’s treatment of Travellers is an example of our attitudes towards the vulnerable. The Bishop of Wateford & Lismore told The Irish Catholic the controversy over the temporary placement of Travellers in Carrickmines in Dublin, “after the tragic fire which claimed 10 lives”, has brought…
Direct provision: Living in limbo
One year after promises of reform, the waiting game continues for those trapped in Ireland’s asylum system, writes Mags Gargan
Oliver Twist meets Harry Potter in magical mystery tour
Aubrey MalonePan (PG)
Catholic teachers feel ‘intimidated’ in faith schools
Cathal BarryChurch is urged to ensure faith in school
Young people must evangelise young people
Sharon Murphy shares her experience of working with the YOUCAT Development Project
Walking together as a listening Church
Pope Francis is calling all Catholics to discern together what God is saying to the Church by listening to the Word of God rather than passing public opinion
Synod must define what being Catholic means
Dear Editor, The dispute within Britain’s Labour Party over its ability to win the next (2020) general election is similar to the issues facing our bishops at the synod in Rome. In Britain, the argument seems to be that Labour must do whatever it has to do in order to become electable, a position rejected…
Restrictions on hospital visits an example of aggressive secularism
Dear Editor, Your recent article about “red tape gone mad” preventing priests from visiting their parishioners in hospitals throughout the country, seems like a further inroad from aggressive secularism (IC 08/10/2015). Hospital mission statements, framed and prominently displayed in out patient’s waiting areas, make much of patients’ rights to courtesy and proper respect from hospital…