Catholic pro-life doctor Dermot Kearney is celebrating after a young mother gave birth to a healthy baby boy following abortion pill reversal treatment. When the policy of allowing home abortions by taking pills was introduced in March 2020, many women expressed regret after taking the first of two pills, mifepristone, and searched for a reversal…
Celebrities can often shine a light on a personal, or social, problem, and bring more focus to a troubling issue. And this, it seems, is what Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, intends when she speaks about suicide. She has been publicly reflecting on her own experience of having suicidal thoughts when she was expecting her first…
Controversy has erupted at the Olympics over two competitors in women’s boxing. Imane Khelif from Algeria and Lin Yu-Ting from Taiwan were disqualified from the International Boxing Association Women’s World Boxing Championships in New Delhi last year after failing gender tests. However, both were cleared to compete in the Paris Olympics. Controversy One journalist with…
A Catholic priest has said that “violence is never the answer” after further scenes of unrest and anti-immigration protests took place across the UK. The violent scenes in several towns and cities, including Middlesbrough, Rotherham, Bolton, Belfast, Liverpool and Southport, were sparked by the killing of three young girls in Southport at a Taylor Swift-themed…
A young newly ordained Dominican priest has described how the call of vocation never leaves and can even turn up in the most stressful of circumstances. Fr Chris Gault OP was a doctor in the emergency room in a Belfast hospital. “It explains instances like the one I experienced in a Belfast hospital’s emergency department…
I hear it quite often at Mass now as part of the Prayers of the Faithful or the General Intercessions: ‘We pray particularly for the unborn…’ It struck me recently about how increasingly important this is becoming in a secular world. There are a shrinking number of areas where the unborn child is considered as…
Since the world was on pause because of the COVID pandemic in 2020, there has been a notable uptick in demand for Miraculous Medals, a symbol of faith and divine intervention that dates back to 1830. Sr Anne O’Neill of the Daughters of Charity runs the office responsible for distributing these medals in Dublin and…
A tweet from a Dubliner caught my eye the other day. “I’m an atheist,” he declared, “who grew up under the horrible yoke of Irish Catholic fundamentalism. Except here’s the thing: it was fine. Every Christian brother and priest I interacted with was perfectly decent.” He also declared that he much preferred the Ireland of…
The Legion of Mary, a worldwide Catholic lay organisation, operates with firm devotion under the patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Central to their mission is the distribution of the Miraculous Medal, a small yet powerful sacramental with a history dating back to 1830. For legionaries like Fabiola Amorim, the mission is not just about…
The Catholic Church has apologised for its treatment of a priest who was sexually abused as a young adult in the 1980s by a fellow member of the clergy. Fr Paddy McCafferty gave evidence in the trial of former priest James Martin Donaghy, who was jailed in 2012 for 10 years. In a statement, the Bishop…
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