More variety in education should allow Ireland’s Church-owned schools to be truly Catholic, Killaloe’s Bishop Fintan Monahan has insisted. While demand for non-denominational schools is low outside Dublin, it is growing, Bishop Monahan said, explaining that “it is in everyone’s interest that this demand would be catered for with a greater number of non-denominational schools”.…
Ireland is to have a referendum in the near future on liberalising the divorce law, and if other countries are an example of how that usually pans out, easier and quicker divorce will very probably follow. The arguments for more liberal divorce are simple: why force a couple to stay together when they are unhappy?…
A well-known psychiatrist has opened up about how her Catholic faith has helped her in coming to terms with the tragic loss of her son from cancer. Prof. Patricia Casey’s son Gavin died in 2017 from spinal cancer when he was aged in his mid-20s. Speaking on RTÉ Radio at the weekend, she said she found…
Beloved Irish singer Dolores O’Riordan was planning on recording in Glenstal Abbey, Co. Limerick, and tested the acoustics there just months before she died. Bro. Anthony Keane OSB told The Irish Catholic that she sang the Panis Angelicus in their church, and that they will miss her at the monastery. “She sang beautifully in the…
Muslim religious objections may pose an unforeseen difficulty for Government abortion plans, writes Greg Daly “The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience,” Alabama lawyer Atticus Finch tells his daughter in Harper Lee’s 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s a powerful statement, and one worth bearing in mind…
Political efforts to make serious but non-fatal foetal conditions grounds for abortion need to be resisted, a spokesperson for Doctors for Life has said. Commenting against a background of claims that the board of Dublin’s Coombe Hospital refused a woman an abortion despite two consultants having certified that her child had a fatal foetal abnormality,…
Those who stand up for the dignity of life in all its stages and want to see this respect for all life enshrined once again in US law have a friend in the Pence family and the Trump administration, Vice President Mike Pence told the March for Life crowd on the National Mall on January…
Forgiveness is key to overcoming the violent legacy of Northern Ireland’s past, a well-known ecumenical priest has said. Speaking ahead of a Belfast-based festival aimed to create peace in the country, Fr Martin Magill of St John’s Parish on the Falls Road told The Irish Catholic that over the past few decades “so much hurt…
Catholic schools and parish communities play a vital role in welcoming and supporting families stuck in Direct Provision centres, a Cork-based priest has said. Commenting on the Millstreet centre, which campaigners believe has the largest number of children of all the Cork Direct Provision sites, Fr John Fitzgerald said that many asylum seekers are well-integrated…
The world’s largest social media platform has banned advertising of a pro-life movie as it has been dubbed a ‘political ad’. Facebook reportedly denied authorisation of ads promoting the US anti-abortion Roe v. Wade film starring Jon Voight and Stacey Dash. The film aims to tell the story of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court…
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