Don’t put a price tag on life, says pro-life group Northern Ireland’s leading pro-life group Precious Life has condemned the Irish Family Planning Association for their announcement that abortions will be provided to women from Northern Ireland at a cost of €450. Director of Precious Life, Bernadette Smyth, said, “This is a prime example of the lucrative abortion industry exploiting women for profit,” adding…
Fed with bread Would you like to learn how to make local Irish breads in a very relaxed atmosphere within a small group? If so, why not head to a thatched barn in Co. Down where you can hear about traditional breads, how they formed the diet pre and post famine in Ireland, and then…
Sweet Treats Laura Anderson This January as many of us endeavour to make a healthy start to 2019 it doesn’t mean having to abandon your favourite baked treats. These refined sugar, dairy and gluten free brownies are a great way to get a delicious chocolate hit, without the guilt! Even better, with all…
Hannah Brockhaus Persevere in prayer, remembering that God is waiting to answer his children – even if the result is to change the person, not the circumstance, Pope Francis said at the general audience today. “How many times have we asked and not obtained – we all experience it – how many times have…
State Papers: Secrets of the powers that be Peter Costello reports from the National Archives of Ireland on the release under the 30-year rule of confidential state files from 1988 On Wednesday (January 2) the National Archive made available to the public under the 30-year-rule State files from various government departments from 1986 and…
State Papers: Secrets of the powers that be Republican legend lingered on despite firm denial by the Vatican in 1933 That Pope Benedict XV, in a private interview with Count George Plunkett in the middle of April 1916, imparted his Apostolic Blessing to the men and arms of the Irish Republic two weeks before…
Bishop Brendan Leahy has criticised the triumphalism of pro-abortion campaigners as laws come into force providing wide access to terminations. In an end of year message, the Bishop of Limerick criticised those who have been celebrating legislation that will lead to the deaths of many Irish unborn children. “A large percentage of those who voted…
State Papers: Echoes of the past from the archives On the 26 July 1975, Msgr Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás, Marquis of Peralta, the founder of Opus Dei, died in Rome. At once there began a movement to have his unique holiness recognised, and the desire to see him canonised was expressed by…
Letter from America In what has been one of the darkest years in the history of the American Catholic Church, it may sound strange to speak of highlights. Yet, as the storm clouds of the clerical sexual abuse crisis overshadowed much of 2018, and lingers into 2019, looking back on the past year reveals…
State Papers: Secrets of the powers that be The very real fear that the government, or at least the Taoiseach, Mr de Valera, felt in the summer of 1940 is a fact unintentionally revealed by some of the files. The trail through documents began with a query from Prof. R. Dudley Edwards in UCD…