The United Nations has disgraced themselves again” a leading Irish psychotherapist has told The Irish Catholic in the wake of a UN report advocating boys and girls share shower facilities. Dr Stella O’Malley told this paper that “No serious organisation tells schools that boys should share facilities such as showers and residential spaces with girls.…
Patrick Pearse once declared, “Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam,” meaning “A country without a language is a country without a soul.” Ireland could therefore be described as a nation without a soul. While most European countries enjoy their native tongue, Ireland has adopted English as its dominant language. Irish remains a vital part of…
On October 28, 2025, the Church marked the 60th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council’s Gravissimum educationis — the declaration that first placed education at the heart of the Church’s mission. In honour of that milestone, Pope Leo XIV has given us a new compass: “Drawing New Maps of Hope.” This text is not simply…
It was hardly unexpected that the Grand Masters of the Orange Order of Ireland, England and Scotland would protest to King Charles about his recent visit to Pope Leo – in their eyes committing the grave transgression of praying with the Pontiff. The Orangemen reprimanded the King for his ecumenical gesture, and rather impertinently directed…
Last week, the two branches of Venerable Mary Ward’s work were merged into one. On November 4, the Congregation of Jesus (CJ) and the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM), known as the Loreto Sisters, have merged into one congregation during Mass in Loyola, Spain. The merger brought together around 1,880 sisters worldwide under…
The Department of Education and Youth has just launched a survey to get the views of parents and guardians about the type of primary schools they want for the future. The survey, which is all online, is for parents and guardians of children currently in primary school or who will enter primary school in the…
And so the long-running saga that is called ‘Donald Trump’ continues, but this time with three big defeats in elections that took place in America last week. These were for the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey and the mayoralty of New York City. In Virginia, a Republican governor was defeated, while in New Jersey…
A priest friend has a rather colourful image in his kitchen, and when I first saw it, I was taken aback. I liked the picture well enough but I wondered why he had a picture of Bob Marley on his wall. He didn’t seem like the type. “That’s an interesting picture,” I said. “Yes, it’s…
The United Nations has disgraced themselves again. No serious organisation tells schools that boys should share facilities such as showers and residential spaces with girls. Yet that is exactly what the UN is suggesting. They’ve painted themselves into a corner after allowing trans activists to convince them that gender identity should take precedence over biological…
The images that continue to arrive from El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, Sudan, are horrific. Mass killings and indiscriminate violence against everyone, women, men and children alike, are the order of the day. For more than two and a half years now, amid deafening silence from the media and the international community, terrible news…
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