Jerusalem is the only city that exists twice: in both heaven and on earth. It has been described as a ‘city of longing’ and it is to this holy city that our hearts and minds turn as we reflect on the drama of Holy Week and Easter. If you’ve ever visited Jerusalem, and I hope…
We cannot predict the future of humankind, but nevertheless, experts in various fields continue to do so. In recent weeks, the experts at the investment banking empire Goldman Sachs have been telling us that Artificial Intelligence – the rise and rise of robots engineered by computerised science – will erase about 300 million jobs in…
The Church must not be afraid of speaking up on controversial teachings in a bid to appear more palatable to secular culture, Bishop of Achonry Paul Demosey has said. Bishop Dempsey also insisted that the synodal process currently underway in the Church requires patience. It comes after The Irish Catholic revealed research which showed just…
Things we do every year are familiar, comforting and sometimes, numbing. Lent, Holy Week and Easter are supposed to remind us of the central, astonishing truth of Christianity – God loved us so much that he died for us. Even more astonishing, he then ended the dominion of death by rising. This ought to be…
The sister of a teenager killed during the Troubles has said she wants to give her brother a Christian burial after it was announced there will be another search for his body. Digging restarted on Monday for Columba McVeigh, who was killed aged 19 by the IRA in 1975, at Bragan Bog in Co. Monaghan.…
We should not attempt to water down the Gospel message to make it more attractive today, rather we should live the message unapologetically, writes Bishop Paul Dempsey The results of a poll outlining the current support for our political parties was published recently. The sample of the population polled was 1,102 people (out of a…
Two families are suing the State after they aborted their babies based on alleged wrongful diagnoses, the Minister for Health has admitted. These are the second and third such claims made against the State, after a settlement was made in 2021 with a family whose baby boy was aborted after a wrongful diagnosis. “These were…
There are many sources of meaning and purpose, but without doubt religion is the pre-eminent one, writes David Quinn A new report from the United Nations (UN) reckons that people living in Ireland are the 14th happiest on the planet. The Finns are ranked at number one. The results are to be found in the…
The Sacrament of Penance is an opportunity rather than just an obligation, writes Russell Shaw When Dr Bernard Nathanson died of cancer in February 2011, the obituary writers dutifully recorded that he’d become a Catholic back in 1996. Some even recalled the reason he gave for taking that step. In the 1960s and 1970s, Dr…
The Irish judicial system is “very lenient” on convicted paedophiles and needs to take a stronger line, according to an Irish missionary who fights human trafficking. Too often convicted paedophiles in Ireland get a “slap on the wrist and community service”, Fr Shay Cullen SSC told The Irish Catholic, calling it “ridiculous”. Fr Cullen is…
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