Courtney McGrailThe Archbishop of Dublin is to become responsible for ethical issues at several Dublin hospitals following a decision by the Sisters of Mercy to transfer ownership of their hospitals to a new body. The sisters have arranged for the canonical and civil transfer of the public and private Mater Misericordiae hospitals, as well as Temple…
Month: May 2016
Augustinian retreat house on market for €2.5 million
Staff reporter The popular Augustinian retreat centre, Orlagh, in Dublin is for sale with an asking price of €2.5 million. The Augustinians have been on the site since 1872 when they acquired the property for use as the novitiate for those who wished to join their ranks. For more than a decade, however, Orlagh has been…
Columba Press enters examinership
Greg DalyReligious publishers Columba Press has entered an examinership process in a bid to survive and take advantage of improving market conditions, the company has said. Examinership is a process where companies with solid underlying businesses but excessive debts seek High Court protection while action is taken to ensure their survival. “We’ve entered the examinership in…
Meet ‘Generation 8th’
Next month’s national pro-life gathering takes place at an absolutely critical time for unborn babies and their mothers, writes Cora Sherlock
Criticism of veneration of Our Lady
Dear Editor, The Redemptorists in Ireland are celebrating the 150th anniversary of when the icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help was given into their care for veneration. The icon has been taken to various parishes around the country, and questions have been raised about the ‘Marymobile’ carrying the icon being “paraded” on a tour…
Church’s capacity to ‘wage peace’
Dear Editor, Further to the article by David Quinn in the May 5 issue ‘The Church must keep just war theory’, I wish to take issue with the defence of such a theory. With reference to how Hitler led the German aggressive invasion of Poland in 1939 and the subsequent World War II in which more…
Unified in fighting Islamic terrorism
Paul KeenanThe Church is on one frontline against militant ideology, writes Paul Keenan
Italian law change a ‘defeat for democracy’
The Italian government’s approval of a bill granting legal recognition to non-married heterosexual and homosexual couples is a defeat for democracy and family life, a prominent Italian bishop has said. The legislation was passed by the Italian Senate in February after its sponsors removed a clause allowing a non-biological parent in a homosexual union to…
World News in Brief
Vatican Bank is ‘clean’ – director general The Vatican Bank is now “absolutely clean”, according to its director general, who says it is now “impossible to launder money” through the institution. Gian Franco Mammi made the claim following the publication of the 2015 report for the bank, officially known as the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR). According to the…
Syrian patriarch claims West is fueling tragedies
The West is an accomplice to the genocide of Christians in Syria, a prominent Church leader from the country has said. Syrian Catholic Patriarch Mar Ignace Youssif III Younan has said in an interview that “the West is fueling the catastrophic tragedies we see unfolding before our eyes”, adding “we have said many times that…