Four men accused of terrorist conspiracy after the murder of the French Catholic priest Father Jacques Hamel in 2016 have been convicted. “Justice is done,” Archbishop Dominique Lebrun of Rouen said after the verdict on March 9. “[The court] has discerned the good from the bad as much as possible, it has judged and for the good…
The View I sat with many hundreds of MPs and members of the House of Lords to watch President Volodymyr Zelenskyy address parliament from Ukraine on the terrible situation in his country. It was one of those totally unprecedented moments – the first occasion on which a president had addressed parliament in this way: a…
A public consultation on whether to introduce exclusion zones around abortion clinics in Northern Ireland has found that only 13 of the 6,412 submissions from members of the public supported the bill. This works out as 0.2% of the total submissions. Despite the strong opposition to the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Bill, MLAs voted…
The Irish Hospice Foundation is providing information and resources on supporting people through grief in the workplace, writes Jason Osborne Grief is a terrible thing. Writing more succinctly about it than I can, C.S. Lewis said that no one ever told him that it felt so much like fear: “I am not afraid, but the sensation…
Nordic Catholic bishops have issued an open letter expressing alarm at the direction of the German ‘Synodal Way’. In the March 9 letter, they cautioned against “capitulation to the Zeitgeist” and “impoverishment of the content of our faith,” reported CNA Deutsch. While acknowledging the challenges facing the Catholic Church in Germany, they said that “the orientation, method, and…
Tackling misogyny while promoting abortion and pornography is like fighting with one hand tied behind your back, writes Ruadhán Jones In recent months, we have had impassioned discussions on misogyny and violence against women in Ireland. However, as my colleague Jason Osborne has pointed out, there has been little in the way of soul-searching as…
As fuel prices rise and Covid funding ends, schools are “absolutely dreading” heating bills, with costs for some jumping 100% in two weeks. “We’re in a bad state at the moment,” says Ailish McKeown, principal at Kilskyre NS, Co. Meath. “Our gas bill has gone up 100% in about two weeks. Gas had gone up…
Wreck of Shackleton’s ship found off Antarctica The wreckage of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship ‘Endurance’, which was crushed by Antarctic ice and sank some 3,000m to the ocean floor more than a century ago, has been found, a team searching for it has said. The three-masted sailing ship was lost in November 1915 during…
Cardinal Krajewski in Ukraine ‘with the logic of the Gospel’ “I am not a diplomat. I came here with the logic of the Gospel. That’s what Jesus would do. He was always on the side of the people who were suffering. The Holy Father also uses this logic of the Gospel.” This is what the…
The Church is asked to sell its land for housing, then blocked from doing so, writes David Quinn The Catholic Church is often asked to sell or donate some of its lands to help address the housing shortage. But now in Dublin it is being blocked in certain instances from doing exactly that. It is…
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