Lourdes: 160 years of healing Greg Daly explores the roots of the title Our Lady used at Lourdes “I am the Immaculate Conception,” St Bernadette was told when, on March 25 1858, the simple peasant girl asked the lady who appeared to her who she was. Not knowing what this meant, the young girl hurried…
Some years ago, I attended a medical conference in London at which Prof. Joel Brind spoke. He has the chair in biology and endocrinology at New York’s Baruch College, and he is the leading exponent of the thesis that there is a link between breast cancer and induced abortion. Prof. Brind spoke as a scientist…
Lourdes: 160 years of healing Greg Daly looks at the first ever Irish national pilgrimage to Lourdes September 1913 may to most Irish people be a date forever linked with the Dublin lock-out and Yeats’s poem about Dublin Corporation’s failure to provide a home for the Hugh Lane paintings, but it was also the…
The View There are a lot of questions about the forthcoming abortion referendum and the country’s response to it. Perhaps the first question is: does everyone know what the Eighth Amendment actually says? An important question, when the people are about to vote about whether it stays or it goes. It’s not just about…
Peter McVerry Trust, the national housing and homeless charity, has announced plans to double its own Housing First work this year. The charity, which was an early adopter of the internationally recognised approach to ending homelessness that focuses on providing both housing and intensive case management simultaneously, is set to expand its delivery of the…
The Green Party have claimed a pro-life group’s billboards which say one in five babies are killed by abortion in Britain are “untruthful”. A war of words sparked between the two groups after Dublin North Inner City Cllr Ciaran Cuffe publicly lodged a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland (ADAI). This led to…
Repealing the Eighth Amendment would give politicians “exclusive power” in relation to future legislation on abortion, according to a Pro-Life campaign spokesperson. Caroline Simons, the legal consultant to the Pro Life Campaign, said that the public are being asked to trust politicians who “change their mind on a whim”. Speaking at a conference in Dublin…
Lourdes: 160 years of healing Fr Robert McCabe reflects on his Lourdes pilgrimage experiences A visual harmony of architecture impresses pilgrim and tourist alike who make their way to the Grotto of Massabielle. The spires, mosaics and statues which surround the golden cross and crown provide a welcome relief and spiritual focus after the distraction…
Members of Ireland’s largest association of GPs said they were “outraged” by the lack of engagement from the Minister for Health in relation to proposed abortion legislation, which would make it a GP led service. “The NAGP (National Association of General Practitioners) strongly objects to the assumption that this will be a GP led service.…
Lourdes: 160 years of healing Greg Daly talks to Ireland’s man on Lourdes’s international medical bureau Belfast doctor Michael Moran, the first Irishman to serve on the International Medical Committee of Lourdes, has been a regular pilgrim to the shrine for over 20 years. “I think I was there as a child with Mum…
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