Catholic schools must retain the right to teach the Church’s message about marriage and the family, Bishop Noel Treanor has warned. Belfast-based Dr Treanor, Bishop of Down and Connor, warned that based on experience in other jurisdictions, this freedom is very often denied to Churches once same-sex marriage legislation is introduced. The rights and freedoms…

Green Party candidate Eamon Ryan has confirmed that he does support State funding for Catholic schools after confusion arose about his links with an Atheist Ireland campaign against faith-based schools. Originally, the website of the campaigning group claimed that Green Party candidates, including Mr Ryan, supported a so-called secular statement circulated by the group. The…

Green Party candidate Eamon Ryan has backed away from controversial remarks attributed to him calling for an end to State funding for Catholic schools. According to campaign group Atheist Ireland Mr Ryan, who is running in the European elections in Dublin, is supporting a so-called secular statement which also calls for an end to charitable…

Green Party candidate Eamon Ryan has backed a campaign to end State funding of Catholic schools. Mr Ryan, who is running in the European elections in Dublin, is supporting a so-called secular statement distributed by atheist campaigners. The document also calls for an end to charitable status for religious bodies and removal of religious references…

“Love Is Our Mission: The Family Fully Alive” will be the theme for the Sept. 22-27, 2015, meeting in Philadelphia

Former Vatican ambassador calls on Catholics to be confident in their faith

A hand-painted prayer made by British primary school children and presented to an Apollo astronaut more than four decades ago is to go on sale in an auction of space memorabilia in Boston this week. The prayer, painted by pupils at the Holy Spirit Roman Catholic School in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire and illuminated by Carmelite…