Threats to the lives of women do not need to be imminent for doctors to take necessary steps to protect them, a leading obstetrician has said. Dr Mary Holohan, a consultant obstetrician in Dublin’s Rotunda Hospital has previously taken issue with the “false allegation” that doctors are prevented from treating seriously ill pregnant women, and…
South Africa’s bishops condemned an attack on a mosque near Durban in which a man was killed and another two injured. Mechanic Abbas Mohamedelo Essop died after his throat was cut in the attack on the mosque in Verulam, about 20 miles north of Durban. Three men armed with guns and knives set the mosque…
The View Anyone with the slightest concern for democracy in our country should be worried by Google’s decision to ban all online advertisements for both sides two and a half weeks before the Referendum. Banning foreign ads is one thing. Giant corporate entities with no accountability deciding what Irish voters can hear and see…
The Vatican has given permission for the opening of the sainthood cause of an Iraqi priest who studied in the Irish College at Rome and spent several summers working at Lough Derg. Chaldean Fr Ragheed Ganni, was killed by armed gunmen after celebrating Mass in Mosul on June 3, 2007, along with three deacons, including…
If I was a member of the Association of Catholic Priests, I would strongly consider my continued membership, writes Dr Tom Finegan I have never met anyone involved in the leadership of the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP), and I know little about the wider ACP itself. I’ve been told that it does some good…
More bishops and priests across Ireland have added their voice to the pro-life cause in the lead up to the May 25 referendum on repealing the Eighth Amendment. Galway’s bishop Brendan Kelly said on May 12 that central to love is solidarity, which entails the support of others, including new life. He noted that this…
All human beings from the moment of conception possess an inalienable right to life and no government can take it away writes Fr Maurice Hogan SSC It has been remarked that all that is needed for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. This is hardly a time for complacency or…
It’s hard to discuss detrimental environmental effects of using the diesel fuel needed to run generators in Gaza when people only have three hours of government-provided electricity a day, Tahani Abu Daqqa, former Palestinian Minister of Culture, has said. Catholics are influenced by the environment in which they live, so while Catholics living in Israel…
Ireland is facing the most momentous vote in its history, writes David Quinn These are the closing days of a referendum debate on the most momentous vote ever to face the Irish people; do we believe that unborn members of the human family have a right to life or not? It is not at…
Heeding a call from Toronto Cardinal Thomas Collins to “speak more loudly by silence” Canada’s largest pro-life march reversed course after it was blocked for at least 20 minutes by a counter protest. An estimated 75-100 demonstrators in favour of allowing abortion, some wearing black bandanas over their faces, screamed chants and waved signs, halting…
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