Brexit and the Northern Ireland Protocol are challenging the Good Friday Agreement, prominent historian Dr Eamon Phoenix has said. This comes following Paul Givan’s resignation as Stormont First Minister as part of the DUP’s escalating protest strategy against Brexit’s Northern Ireland Protocol. Speaking to The Irish Catholic, Dr Phoenix said power sharing “is very prone…
The Minister for Health has confirmed that the wearing of masks in churches has never been a requirement under statutory instrument – it has been public health advice. Last week in the Dáil, Minister Stephen Donnelly, in response to a question from Mattie McGrath TD, said that while the majority of public health measures have…
The View Times are hard for many people and particularly so for people of faith, who see their cherished values being undermined in so many different ways. That’s why I found a recent event that both my adult daughters were involved in so cheering. Along with seven other leaders, they took a group of almost…
A fourth Anglican bishop in a year has been received into the Catholic Church. It was confirmed by the Church Times – an independent newspaper covering the Church of England – that the former bishop of Chester, Peter Forster, became Catholic last year. The three other Church of England bishops to become Catholic last year…
Following calls from the Irish Redemptorists for the Vatican to reinstate a priest removed from ministry, a theologian has raised concerns that he is still “at loggerheads with several important Church teachings”. Fr Tony Flannery CSsR was suspended from public ministry by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 2012, with that dicastery…
Even leaving aside the Catholic Church (and up until 1995, the Irish electorate) few institutions have been as opposed to divorce during the 20th Century as the British royal family. King George V, monarch at the time of the foundation of the Irish State (and of the Stormont parliament), would not receive divorcés at court.…
The president of the Argentine bishops’ conference expressed sorrow and called for action on addiction after the consumption of contaminated cocaine claimed at least 23 lives and hospitalised dozens more in the low-income suburbs of Buenos Aires. Bishop Óscar concaine of San Isidro, conference president, tweeted February 2, “I am deeply moved by the death…
We must devise policies that make it easier for couples to have children and start their families sooner, writes David Quinn Critics of the Church often like to point out that the Mass-going population of the country is shrinking and getting older all the time. It’s true, but what they often fail to notice, is…
Staff reporter The Police Ombudsman has found “collusive behaviour” by police in 11 loyalist murders in the North, including the 1992 attack at the Sean Graham betting shop. A report by Marie Anderson also identified “significant” investigative and intelligence failures. She said it was “totally unacceptable” that police used informants within the Ulster Defence Association (UDA)…
Valentine’s Day has lost much meaning over the years, but finding the saint behind the name should reinvigorate it for Catholics, writes Jason Osborne Unfortunately, like with so many holidays these days, St Valentine’s Day has lost much of its reason for being. It’s now understood by many to be a day of token gestures and…
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