It’s easy to use the right words in development while people with disabilities remain overlooked, writes Dualta Roughneen This coming December 3 marks International Day of Persons with Disabilities. It was instituted in 1992 by the United Nations, to promote an understanding of disability issues and mobilise support for the dignity, rights and well-being of…
Attending Mass in an Italian church shows how European Christianity has collapsed, writes Dualta Roughneen I have a travelled a lot over the last 20 years. My work has taken me to many different and varied countries, for weeks, months and years at a time. The work travel has allowed me to add holidays on…
My wife recently gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. I love her so much already, and I find it unbelievable
Catholic social teaching is about instilling virtue and right action in people, writes Dualta Roughneen Often described in certain quarters as the Catholic Church’s best kept secret, its corpus of social teaching goes back long before the first ‘social’ encyclical of Pope Leo XII, Rerum Novarum, in 1891. You could say that it goes back to…
The story is complex, yet the trope of the Catholic bogeyman remains even after the report makes clear that a simple denigrating of the religious is not only misguided but false, writes Dualta Roughneen Much of the commentary around the mother and baby homes prior to the publication of the final report last week has been…