The View Martin Mansergh Pope Francis’ approval of the Italian bishops’ decision to render more precise the passage in the Lord’s Prayer in Italian that is the equivalent of, but perhaps not precisely the same as ‘lead us not into temptation’ was news here, in the sense that it came as a surprise to most…
Only 74% of Irish trust medical vaccines Colm Fitzpatrick and Chai Brady Parents are morally obliged to vaccinate their children if it poses a serious risk to their health, priests and theologians have said. With over 20 confirmed measles cases in the Dublin area since the beginning of the year, and other fringe outbreaks…
Imagine a scenario in which it came to be known that cars with defective seat belts had been allowed on to the market. Now imagine that this information on the increased risk of passenger fatalities was known to government and all the major political parties prior to the sale of the cars, but they failed…
A new Vatican document invites important questions about dialogue and understanding, writes Kevin O’Higgins SJ This month, the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education issued a document, ‘Male and Female He Created Them: Towards a Path of Dialogue On the Question of Gender Theory in Education’. While the focus is on gender theory in relation…
Madison Duddy A Derry-based priest has dubbed First Communion celebrations as an “empty show” for many, as few children return to church after receiving the Sacrament. Fr Paddy O’Kane of Holy Family Parish told this newspaper that many Communicants aren’t committed to the Faith and that the church-return rate afterwards is low. His comments…
A panel of Court of Appeal judges has halted a court-ordered abortion in the UK, overturning a decision made last Friday in a case involving a mentally disabled woman. On Friday, Justice Nathalie Lieven ordered that a 22-week-pregnant mentally disabled woman be forced to have an abortion, despite the objections of the woman and the assurances…
A Satanic Temple member who won the right to open a regional Alaska government meeting declared “Hail Satan” during her first invocation, prompting about a dozen officials and attendees to walk out. Last week’s invocation that started the meeting of the Kenai Peninsula Borough also spurred a protest outside the southern Alaska borough’s administration building…
Letter from Rome Inés San Martín Pope Francis visited the southern Italian city of Naples last Friday, participating in a theology congress dedicated to interreligious dialogue and migration in the context of the Mediterranean Sea. The Argentine Pontiff revisited some of his core concepts, calling for theologians to be an expression of a Church…
ChaiBrady and Madison Duddy The Pro Life Campaign is working on programmes aimed to “empower young people” to be future leaders in the pro-life movement in Ireland in order to sustain the fight for life. Inés Lonergan, a pro-life student, told this paper the group are currently working on programmes to engage youth to be…
The Venezuelan bishops have expressed their concern for the risks to which Venezuelan emigrants, especially women, are exposed. More than four million Venezuelans have emigrated since 2015. Under the socialist administration of Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela has been marred by violence and social upheaval, with severe shortages and hyperinflation. “The Justice and Peace Commission and Caritas…