Exclusion zones are an infringement on democracy, writes Denise Kelly One of the greatest challenges for the pro-life movement is in combating false public perceptions – perceptions that by and large are created by those most vociferous in opposing what we stand for. I get where the motivation comes from. If you’re going to…
Britain should do more to remember the victims of its religious persecution, writes Francis Campbell On this day in 1681, a short distance from this studio, an innocent man was hanged, drawn and quartered. That was the punishment for high treason. Today, July 1, marks his feast day for he was St Oliver Plunkett.…
An Ikea worker in Poland has filed a lawsuit after being fired last week for posting Bible verses opposing homosexual behaviour on the company’s intranet. Identified in local media as Tomasz K, the worker is suing after he was terminated from his position at the furniture store in Krakow. Poland Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro…
Sources close to Conor Gannon, the former Rome-based Dublin seminarian falsely accused in 2018 of being kicked out of the Irish College in Rome for a sexual liason with another seminarian has said that Mr Gannon is “greatly relieved that he can now move on with his life”. Claim In recent days Mr Gannon received…
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI said in an article published last Friday that the unity of the Church has always prevailed over internal struggles and affirmed that there is currently only one Pope. “The Pope is one, it is Francis,” Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI said in an interview with an Italian magazine published by Corriere Della Sera…
The US Diocese of New Ulm has announced that it has reached a $34m (€30m) settlement with victims of clerical sexual abuse. “The settlement represents our commitment to finding a fair resolution for victims and survivors of sexual abuse while continuing our ministry for those we serve throughout south and west central Minnesota,” Bishop John…
The Vatican has told bishops and priests in China that they must follow their own consciences in deciding whether to register with the government, and it urged Catholics in the country not to judge them for the choices they make. The problem, the Vatican said, is that registration almost always requires the bishop or priest…
Jean Vanier challenged Catholics to examine what the Church should be like, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has said. Speaking at a celebration of the L’Arche founder’s life at the Riasc Centre in Swords, Co. Dublin, the archbishop of Dublin praised the late humanitarian’s understanding of the Beatitudes as rooted in “a deep and thoughtful insight into…
John McGuirk This week, we found out something that was supposed to be a secret. We were not supposed to know that Google employees manually interfered with search terms to promote some videos on Youtube, and hide others, in the week leading up to last year’s abortion referendum. This was a decision taken internally,…
Letter from Rome Inés San Martín As the Catholic Church in Germany prepares to embark on a synodal process motivated in part by a desire to stop a haemorrhage of faithful, Pope Francis has sent them a letter reminding them they don’t walk alone but with the universal Church. In the missive he also…