Courtney McGrailJohn Reid The Government has been urged to provide more resources to ensure that a huge backlog in child protection vetting does not continue to hamper local schools. Educators have complained that the current system, while entirely welcome in its aim of safeguarding children, is at risk of defeating its purpose as massive delays are being…
Month: October 2016
New cardinals show Pope wants contemplative missionaries
Spiritan Bishop Maurice Piat from Mauritius, who studied for the priesthood in Ireland and Rome in the 1960s, said that he first heard the news of his recent nomination as cardinal when a friend phoned to congratulate him. He didn’t believe it. Asked by a journalist what he thought his elevation meant, Bishop Maurice said…
Learning to let go
Greg DalyMary Lou Quinlan tells Greg Daly about a remarkable testimony to her mother’s love
A world without Down’s Syndrome is terrifying
David Quinn“eugenics has crept up… almost unnoticed and… society in an almost unbreakable lock grip” within a logic that is “absolutely terrifying” writes David Quinn
Pro-life campaigner encouraged by large turnout
John Reid Pro-life activists were buoyed up at the weekend after the largest-ever turnout at the Pro-Life Campaign national conference. More than 800 people from all across Ireland packed in to the RDS to hear news of the organisation’s fight for the rights of unborn babies in Ireland. US-based Irish filmmaker Ann McElhinney delivered the keynote…
PLC optimistic over latest abortion poll
John Reid The Pro-Life Campaign (PLC) has expressed optimism at the findings of an opinion poll published by the Irish Times last week, stating that the sample shows that the clear majority of Irish voters are opposed to abortion on demand. The PLC described the outcome as a “rebuke” to the ‘Repeal’ campaign which is advocating…
What future for faith in modern Ireland?
What faith has to offer society is much more important than the challenges being experienced by Catholicism, writes Francis Campbell
China to launch renewed crackdown on religion
China is poised to enact harsh new controls on religion within days, it has been reported. As The Irish Catholic went to press this week, numerous media outlets warned that new regulations aimed directly at individuals and faith communities are set to be rolled out by Beijing. The regulations, issued in draft form in September…
World News in Brief
Legal firm receives threats in Pakistan blasphemy case A legal firm in Pakistan has received threats for attempting to offer representation for a young boy accused of blasphemy. The Voice group, an NGO led by a Christian lawyer Aneeqa Maria Anthony, has been linked to the case of 16-year-old Nabeel Masih who is accused of blasphemy on the basis of sharing a…
Turkish dossier links interfaith dialogue to July coup
A government department in Turkey has said interfaith dialogue with Christians was the path by which those allegedly behind the July 15 coup laid their plans. In a dossier compiled by the Presidency of Religious Affairs of Turkey, the exiled Islamic cleric Fetullah Gulen, nemesis to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is accused of exploiting interfaith…