Spanish Christian lawyers demand series promoting paedophilia be axed The Christian Lawyers Foundation in Spain has begun an online petition calling for the cancellation of Scandal, Story of an Obsession, a television series that portrays the relationship between a 42-year-old woman and a 15-year-old boy. For Christian Lawyers, the series promotes “the most absolute whitewashing…
While the National Symphony Orchestra saluted 2023 at the National Concert Hall (NCH) with a programme of Viennese and other bon bons on New Year’s Day, it later returned to its 2022/23 Subscription Series with Mozart’s Flute and Harp Concerto and Stravinsky’s Pulcinella ballet. The latter dates from 1919 around the start of what is…
Dear Editor, Without a doubt, a number of Irish politicians are continuously stoking up hatred for the Church in their poisonous, insidious speeches in the Dáil. Thank you for highlighting this [The Irish Catholic – January 12, 2023] and to the TDs who call it out. Not a day goes by when there isn’t another…
One of my favourite Christmas albums is Phil Cunningham’s Christmas Songbook and one of my favourite TV shows is the Transatlantic Sessions, so I was in my element last Friday night on BBC Four. It was the start of Wayfaring Stranger with Phil Cunningham, a three part series on the links between the folk music…
In the last 30 years I have worked in seven different parishes. They were a mixture of city, small town, and rural communities. The one thing they all have in common is the very strong presence of the GAA. The GAA is based on parish structures and the greatest strength of the organisation is that…
The Art of Disagreeing Well: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard, by Bo Seo (William Collins, £14.99/€16.99) Bo Seo, the author of this very interesting book, is of Korean background but was raised in Australia. He made his name as a school and college debater, and went on to build on this…
The voice of John the Baptist is now silenced behind prison walls. It is time for Jesus to begin his mission. He leaves his home and work in Nazareth and settles initially in Capernaum, a lakeside town not too far away. There he begins his preaching with a short but challenging message. “Repent, for the…
Record November homeless figures ‘disappointing’ – McVerry Trust Homelessness hit record levels for the fifth straight month in November 2022, with the Peter McVerry Trust calling the news “disappointing”. The figures, released on January 6, show that 11,542 people are in homeless accommodation across Ireland. The Homeless Report for November 2022 was issued by the…
Old rivalries take centre stage at Vatican trial Francesca Chaouqui, convicted by a Vatican court in 2016 of leaking confidential Vatican documents, was back on the stand before Vatican magistrates January 13, testifying in a long-running trial on financial misconduct. Ms Chaouqui, once a member of the now-defunct Pontifical Commission for Reference on the Economic-Administrative…
It would have been hard to avoid media coverage of Prince Harry’s all-too-revealing autobiography, Spare, out this week. Aside from the un-sparing details from his private life, there is serious official concern at his apparent boast that he killed 25 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. British security sources are dismayed that he may have made himself,…
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