A Co. Tyrone community has been left “numb” by the crash which claimed the lives of three members of the same family, Fr Declan Boland said at the funeral for two siblings. Dan and Christine McKane and their aunt Julia McSorley were killed when the minibus they were travelling in was in a collision with…
May 5 the Church celebrates a man who has indirectly affected the lives of a great many people on our shores, even today: Blessed Edmund Rice, the founder of the Presentation Brothers. As many readers will be aware, the Presentation Brothers are an order dedicated to helping and “forming Christ in the young,” particularly through…
Artists have always made use of the latest technology to produce popular images but recent months have put the Pope at the centre of it, hears Jason Osborne Did you see the images circulating social media of the Pope wearing an elegant, white puffer jacket? Were you surprised to see the Holy Father garbed so…
The legendary French feminist Simone de Beauvoir has been removed from a list of female candidates to be honoured in sculpture at Trinity College Dublin’s Old Library. When it emerged that De Beauvoir, who died in 1986, was accused of grooming young female students as lovers – whom she apparently passed on to her veteran…
During a Dáil debate, TD Paul Murphy requested an amendment to the controversial hate crime bill that would have weakened protection for religious discourse. The amendment, which Mr Murphy said would remove “as a defence for hate speech material that something is a reasonable and genuine contribution to religious discourse”, was turned down during the…
Charles III must manage a ‘balancing act’ to keep up warm relationship with other faiths, Ruadhán Jones hears When Charles III enters Westminster Abbey on Saturday, May 6, he will do so behind a cross that has relics from the true cross embedded in it, a gift from the Pope. Sending the relic was a…
OSV News Whether we want to admit it or not, life is full of changes. Some changes are easy, fun, and helpful: trying a different hairstyle, buying a new car, learning a new skill, landing a new job. Some changes challenge us – losing weight or quitting smoking – or transform us, like letting go…
Our paper’s headline last week, “Euthanasia committee promises fair hearing for concerned voices,” will have come as welcome news to many pro-lifers in Ireland who are tired and disheartened by the cold shoulder we’ve received from Government on the abortion front. Perhaps a few people read it, though, and wondered why there would be concerned…
Fr Johan Verschueren, the superior of Fr Marko Rupnik, a Jesuit priest and artist accused of sexually abusing numerous nuns, explained that from an ecclesial point of view it is “illegal” for Fr Rupnik to be the owner of a company. On April 22, Fr Verschueren, the Jesuit superior in Rome, told ACI Prensa that…
In barrister Marie O’Shea’s independent review of the abortion legislation, abortion is taken as an unqualified good. Therefore, anything standing in the way has to be removed. The three-day waiting period is framed as dispensable. And yet the review acknowledges elsewhere in a section on consent, that “there are risks that women may regret their…
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