Courtney McGrailThe year is 1841, the date, August 23. On the pier in Kingstown (Dun Laoghaire) stands a group of Loreto nuns waving off seven young women in their 20s, dressed in the habit of the Loreto Sisters and accompanied by five postulants. These 12 are embarking on a journey destined for Calcutta, India. Their journey…
Month: September 2016
The Reformation and its consequences revisited
All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation by Diarmuid MacCulloch (Allen and Lane, £25.00)
100,000 alive today because of Eighth Amendment, report suggests
Greg DalyThe Pro Life Campaign pre-empted last weekend’s March for Choice in Dublin by highlighting research suggesting that over 100,000 Irish people owe their lives to Ireland’s constitutional protections for the unborn. In advance of the September 24 march, which some participants claimed was attended by over 20,000 people, a group of young pro-life advocates gathered…
World News in Brief
Internet giants ordered to block gender-abortion ads in India Three leading internet search engine companies have been ordered by India’s Supreme Court to block ads promoting sex-selective abortions. In a move aimed at tackling India’s huge rate of abortions of females, regularly referred to as ‘gendercide’, the court order requires Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to block searches based on 22 key words, thereby…
Homeless plans ‘not ambitious enough for Ireland’s children’
The 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…
Ploughing through the numbers
Greg Daly examines a recent survey of religious belief and practice in the farming community
A journey of lives lost and saved
Brendan O’ReganRobert Duvall is one of my favourite American actors so I was glad to see him interviewed on The World Over Live (EWTN) last Thursday afternoon. Presenter Raymond Arroyo was well informed on Duvall’s films and had some acting experience himself which helped when they discussed various acting coaches and styles. I had forgotten…
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…
Nazi history and behaviour is clear to readers
Dear Editor, Chris Jezewski (Letters IC 22/09/2016) says that in order to avoid “confusing the perpetrators with the victims” of the Nazi concentration camps, your paper should not say the camps were in Poland, instead saying they were in “German-occupied” Poland. I don’t think this is necessary, and would go so far as to say…
Catholic canon welcomes ‘symbolic’ appointment at Belfast cathedral
Staff reporter The first Catholic ecumenical canon of Belfast’s Church of Ireland cathedral has praised the symbolism of his appointment. Fr Eddie O’Donnell, who was installed as Ecumenical Canon of St Anne’s Cathedral during Evensong on September 25, told The Irish Catholic that his duties will include occasionally preaching in the cathedral and attending chapter meetings,…