There’s no evidence that introducing euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide reduces incidences of suicide UK bioethicist David Jones tells Jason Osborne A recent peer-reviewed study from the UK’s Anscombe Bioethics Centre has debunked claims that legalising euthanasia or assisted suicide (EAS) leads to fewer non-assisted suicides. Prof. David Jones, Director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, with this…
Junno Arocho Esteves Taking the stand for a second time at his Vatican trial, Cardinal Angelo Becciu spent more than two hours reading a statement in which he claimed accusations of financial impropriety were an attempt to stain his reputation. At the trial May 5, Cardinal Becciu said he felt “immense pain” when Pope Francis…
Alberto Giacometti: Marvellous Reality, a bilingual catalogue edited by Émelie Bouvard and others (Grimaldi Forum, Monaco/Fondation Giacometti, Paris, €35.00) Exhibition Giacometti from Life, curators: Sean Rainbird and Janet McLean (National Gallery of Ireland); Catherine Grenier and Thierry Pautot (Fondation Giacometti), continues to September 4 2022, Beit Wing (Rooms 6–10). (Intending visitors need to book an exhibition ticket on-line.) It…
Personal Profile Aidan O’Rourke, manager at Radio Maria, says it is a great blessing to serve people by bringing God to them over the radio. Having explored the ways God might be calling him, he feels that he is now fulfilling his vocation through his work with the station. The eldest of four brothers and…
Irish charity GOAL is working towards long term solutions as the damage done to Ukraine will echo far into the future, writes Chai Brady Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has continued far longer than many analysts expected, the war is in its third month and currently there is no end in sight. Irish charity GOAL has…
Australia’s Catholic bishops have elected Archbishop Timothy Costelloe as their new leader. Archbishop Costelloe, a priest of the Salesians of Don Bosco, is the first member of a religious order to serve as president of Australia’s bishops’ conference. The 68-year-old archbishop of Perth, Western Australia, succeeds Archbishop Mark Coleridge, who was president of the Australian Catholic Bishops…
Pope Francis received in audience a group of students from the Catholic Chaplaincy at Queen’s University in Belfast, encouraging them to cultivate the culture of encounter in their academic community. Pope Francis encouraged the students to contribute “to building up Ireland’s noble traditions of hospitality, reconciliation, fidelity to the Gospel and steadfastness in the pursuit…
Trust Your Feelings: Learning how to Make Choices with Ignatius of Loyola, by Nikolaas Sintobin SJ (Messenger Publications, €12.95/£11.95) This is the second of author Nikolaas Sintobin’s books to come to us for review. The first was warmly commended to readers, and this new title is quite as good as the first, and can also be…
Where can all of us believers come together beyond the divisions created by history, dogma, denomination, and religion? Where is there a place all people of sincere heart can find common ground and worship together? That place is found in the ecumenical and interreligious pursuit of spirituality, and our theology schools and seminaries need to…
Dear Editor, I agree wholeheartedly with your Editor’s Comment about what Ireland can learn from the pro-life community in the United States (The Irish Catholic, May 5, 2022). It is not at all clear to me what in fact the US Supreme Court will do in terms of the notorious Roe V Wade case that…
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