Humanitarian concerns are growing as people caught in the crosshairs of the Turkish incursion into northeastern Syria try to flee for safety, and groups are scrambling to aid them. “There are big concerns about what is going on in northeastern Syria with the Turkish military aerial assaults and ground operations,” Fr Emanuel Youkhana said by…
Ireland’s bishops have big plans for the pontifical university, writes Greg Daly Buried near the end of a long and thoughtful address in Rome’s Irish Pontifical College a couple of weeks ago on the relevance of St John Henry Newman in Ireland today, Dublin’s Archbishop Diarmuid Martin had something startling to say about St…
State failures in diplomacy marked the canonisation debacle, writes Chai Brady Given the instrumental role St John Henry Newman played in laying the foundations of what is now the State’s largest university, the Government’s tardiness in organising a representative for his canonisation was baffling for many. It seemed obvious that the Irish Government didn’t appear…
It was a dream come true for many Magherafelt fans at the weekend as the O’Donovan Rossa club won their first Derry senior final in 41 years. However, winning captain Danny Heavron had a powerful intercessor in Heaven who he turned to in the final moments of the tight clash with the Glen. “I was…
“Nones”, those who profess no religious affiliation, are now the largest subgroup in American society, their numbers having grown in the past decade while the percentage of Catholics in the US slipped over the past 10 years. In a Pew Research Centre ‘religious landscape’ report issued last week, nones have jumped from 17% of the…
We must find the courage to speak clearly, a Dutch cardinal tells Greg Daly When the Irish Catholic Doctors’ Learning Network decided to build its annual conference this month around the theme of ‘Powers and Powerlessness: Responding to the Challenges of Modern Healthcare’, one obvious potential speaker was the Cardinal Archbishop of Utrecht, Wim Eijk.…
Questions of Faith Organ donation can make a tremendous difference to the quality of people’s lives – thousands suffer yearly from liver, kidney and heart problems, so a chance to find a replacement organ for its damaged counterpart can be a dream come true. Despite its benefits, it’s not uncommon to hear reservations about this…
Dublin’s St Valentine’s Shrine has warned against an internet scam around medals falsely linked with the shrine. Highlighting how a website is selling medals of St Valentine purporting to contain soil from Whitefriar Street Church, which houses the Shrine of St Valentine, Carmelite authorities have denied that any soil has been taken from the church.…
Social Life in Pre-Reformation Dublin 1450-1540 by Peadar Slattery (Four Courts Press, €45.00) Recently I was involved, in quite another capacity, in raising money for the purchase for the Trinity College Research collections of a fugitive manuscript from St Mary’s Abbey in Dublin, liquidated at the time of the Reformation. This brought to my…
Morocco’s king has pardoned a journalist, her fiance and the medical team who last month were found guilty of procuring and performing an abortion. The country’s penal code bars abortion except in cases when the mother’s life is endangered. Mohammed VI’s pardon was granted on October 16. Hajar Raissouni, 28, had been sentenced last month…
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