Greg DalyClare priest celebrates president elect’s ‘pro-life’ values
Month: November 2016
Leonard Cohen’s appeal was ‘the spiritual search he shared with us’
Paul KeenanThe late performer Leonard Cohen touched so many people with his music due to his search for spiritual fulfilment through the medium, broadcaster Fr Brian D’Arcy has said. Speaking to The Irish Catholic this week about the impact of Leonard Cohen’s life, apparent in the global outpouring of grief and tributes that followed his November…
Regulate crisis pregnancy advisers, PLC urges
The Pro Life Campaign has called for Government plans for the regulation of independent crisis pregnancy support agencies to be consistently applied. Health Minister Simon Harris has backed a draft law issued by Labour leader Brendan Howlin intended to prevent pregnancy advisers from giving false information to distressed women. If passed, this would be the…
The cardinals America needs
“America’s Church will most need prominent voices seen as champions of immigrants and the poor…” writes Greg Daly
Playing the green card
Courtney McGrail“A Failed Political Entity”: Charles Haughey and the Northern Ireland Question 1945-1992 by Stephen Kelly (Merrion Press, €24.99 pb / €75.00 hb)
We need to re-think what we mean by generosity
Nuala O’Loan“There is little left to draw on for Christmas, yet Christmas will come”, writes Nuala O’Loan
Squandering a pro-life movement for a tawdry triumph
Among the many depressing pieces published in the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s victory in last week’s US Presidential election was one at ncregister.com entitled ‘Trump’s Triumph powered by religious voters’. “The next days will allow for careful study of the numbers, but the exit polls found initially that Trump may have carried the largest…
Prominent cleric against ‘Brexit’ targeted by vandals
A campaigning Northern Ireland priest, most recently known for his public arguments against a hard border in the wake of Britain’s ‘Brexit’ vote, has suffered a serious vandal attack on his home in Co. Fermanagh. The parochial house of Fr Joe McVeigh in Lisbellaw, in the parish of Enniskillen, was targeted on November 13 in…
Trócaire nominated for world’s largest humanitarian award
Irish aid agency Trócaire has been nominated for the 2017 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize for its work in developing nations worldwide. The world’s largest humanitarian award, at $2million, the prize is is offered towards programme work engaged in by the winning organisation, nominated through an open process, and would act as a major boost…
Making connections with Donald Trump’s America
Mary Kenny“The world is what it is, and it’s interesting – even droll – to watch the reconfiguration of power politics with a shift in power” writes Mary Kenny