Greg DalyThe Government’s plans to tackle homelessness do not do enough to address the issue of family homelessness, a leading campaigner has said. Speaking at the Focus Ireland Conference, the charity’s founder Sr Stanislaus Kennedy said ‘Rebuilding Ireland’, the Government’s action plan on homelessness and housing, is “welcome and ambitious”, but insufficiently ambitious for the needs…
Month: September 2016
Pakistani teen arrested for Facebook ‘blasphemy’
Courtney McGrailA Christian teenager in Pakistan has fallen foul of the country’s blasphemy law for ‘liking’ a Facebook post. Police in Punjab have confirmed that the unnamed youth had been detained following his like on what has been described as an inappropriate picture of the Kaaba, the central structure in Mecca and site of the annual…
Principle of only male priests? Read of the Last Supper
Dear Editor, Bro. Malachy Buckley is quite right to mention Mary, the Mother of God and the most important woman who ever lived, and Mary Magdalen (IC 22/09/2016). It is all the more significant, therefore, that Jesus did not invite any women to the Last Supper, but just ‘the twelve’ – including the traitor, Judas…
Ploughing through the numbers
Greg Daly examines a recent survey of religious belief and practice in the farming community
John McAreavey thanks God for second chance
John McAreavey, whose wife Michaela Harte was murdered on the couple’s honeymoon in 2011, has remarried and thanked God for getting his life back on track. Five years after the trauma and heartbreak of losing Michaela on the island of Mauritius, John has married Tara Brennan, with whom he worked at the Michaela Foundation, the…
100,000 reasons to be grateful
Young pro-life activists holding balloons to mark how the Pro Life Campaign has calculated that upwards of 100,000 Irish people are alive today who might not be so were it not for the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution.
No good can come from applying labels to children
Mary Kenny“Human life is not some consumerised product… whereby only those who pass the test of being ‘chosen’ may be regarded as admissible”, writes Mary Kenny
Church teaching has not been breached
Dear Editor, The comments of Frs Gerry O’Hanlon and Gerald Murphy in your article ‘Irish bishops urged to adopt divorce-Communion’ (IC 22/09/15) have been extremely helpful in making sense of what Pope Francis’ recent comments on the interpretation of Amoris Laetitia mean in reality. I have read articles elsewhere arguing that the Pope lacks the…
Belfast celebrates Faith and Life
More than 500 people attended Down and Connor’s third annual Faith and Life Convention on September 24. Taking place at Our Lady and Saint Patrick’s College in Belfast, the event gathered representatives from parishes across the diocese to hear from speakers and to participate in a host of workshops exploring the place of faith in…
Bishop Fintan: Ready to meet new challenges
Greg Daly talks to Bishop Fintan Monahan