Vatican asks Catholics to share experiences helping migrants and refugees As the Church prepares to commemorate the World Day of Migrants and Refugees in September, Pope Francis launched a video campaign meant to highlight the spiritual and cultural contributions that migrants bring to people’s lives. “Migrants and refugees offer us a great opportunity for the…
Dear Editor, As parents and grandparents, we are deeply concerned about the proposed radical revision of the Junior Cycle Social, Personal, Health Education (SPHE) curriculum. In common with many of our contacts and friends, we strongly object to the proposed changes on the grounds of the primary rights of parents in education and the likely…
Staff reporter Brendan O’Connor has been wrestling with religion after a Harvard scientist told him that the best way to be happy is to have faith. Speaking on his Brendan O’Connor show on Saturday morning, Mr O’Connor recalled recent guest, Professor Arthur Brooks’, advice to “go back” to Catholicism if he wanted to be happy.…
Staff reporter Tributes has been led to Nobel peace prize laureate David Trimble who died on Monday after a short illness. Mr Trimble – then the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party – was a key player in the signing of the Good Friday Agreement and was later awarded the prize along with John Hume.…
Staff reporter Irish-born singer-songwriter Gilbert O’Sullivan has revealed that his Catholic Faith has been a constant support in his life. The writer of hit Alone Again – which spent six months as number one in the US charts – said that Mass is still a vital part of the practise of his faith. “Because I…
Staff reporter On his state visit to Singapore, An Taoiseach Micheál Martin paid an “emotional” visit to a chapel built by prisoners-of-war during WWII. Mr Martin went to Changi Chapel and Museum to pay tribute to his uncle Philip, one of the POW’s interred at Changi camp and whose name is displayed on the chapel…
Oireachtas committee on assisted suicide expected in October A special committee to examine legalising assisted suicide is expected to begin in October according to People before Profit TD Gino Kenny. The committee was recommended in July, following the passage of the so-called Dying with Dignity Bill in the Dáil last year. The bill would give…
The latest warning by the Holy See about the risk of a new schism from Germany arising from the “Synodal Way” has been rejected and met with “astonishment” by its organisers, who in turn accused Rome of not acting like a synodal Church. However, at least one German bishop and a reform group welcomed the new intervention…
Rare documentation of the Portuguese Inquisition with detailed information about the sentencing trials which took place 500 years ago have been digitised for the first time in the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People Jerusalem’s National Library of Israel. The documents include printed versions of sermons preached by two priests at the…
Liam Fitzpatrick Six in ten rent increase notices brought to a housing charity between April and June 2022 were invalid under rent control legislation, according to the organisation’s report. Threshold, a charity whose aim is to secure a right to housing, particularly for households experiencing the problems of poverty and exclusion, analysed 364 requests from…