Health Minister Simon Harris is telling “overt and blatant lies” about proposed abortion legislation, Save the 8th has said. Interviewed by the Sunday Times, Mr Harris said under proposed legislation there will not be “unlimited abortion up to birth in cases of life-limiting conditions”. Adding that the published heads of the bill do not contain…
Niamh Uí Bhriain explains why Google’s decision is a serious threat to the referendum process The three leading pro-life groups campaigning for the retention of Ireland’s constitutional protection for the unborn have called on Google to reconsider its decision to block all advertising in connection with the upcoming referendum. Speaking at a press…
EXCLUSIVE Protestant leaders make unprecedented plea Greg Daly and Martin O’Brien One of the key architects of the peace process has said that if Pope Francis does not visit the North during his Irish visit in August it will be a missed opportunity to help peace and reconciliation. Speaking exclusively to The Irish Catholic former Taoiseach Bertie…
The Society of St Vincent de Paul (SVP) has reiterated its historical Catholic character and affirmed its commitment to Church teaching in the face of criticism of the society’s failure to take a stance in the upcoming referendum on the right to life of the unborn. In a letter to The Irish Catholic, SVP National…
Dublin’s Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has praised an Garda for recovering the stolen heart of Dublin’s patron saint, and expressed his delight that the relic has been recovered six years after its theft from the city’s Christ Church Cathedral. The heart of St Laurence O’Toole, which has been venerated for almost 800 years, was stolen from…
How to defend the Faith without raising your voice: Conference Silence is not an option for Catholics in the public sphere, papal biographer Austen Ivereigh told a packed room in the Red Cow Hotel at this year’s The Irish Catholic national conference. Quoting Pope Francis’ observation that the cemetery is only place where there…
Perhaps few things provoke Irish eye-rolling quite so much as the clichéd tendency of our cousins across the Irish Sea to claim Irish sporting and acting successes as ‘British’, but it was especially bizarre to read last week a catholicherald.co.uk piece claiming Oscar Wilde’s deathbed conversion as an English phenomenon. In ‘The Passion of Oscar…
Leading oncologists have dismissed claims that pregnant women cannot safely be treated for cancer, and will be denied chemotherapy. Rumours that chemotherapy is not an option for pregnant women with cancer have been rife during the referendum campaign around Ireland’s constitutional protections for the unborn, but such rumours are unfounded, Dr David Fennelly told The…
Ireland’s constitutional protection of unborn human life is a ‘human rights issue’ worth fighting for, one of the founders of Gaelic Athletes for Life has said. “It is swimming against the tide in many ways,” Anne-Marie McDonough told The Irish Catholic, adding, “I’m definitely willing to stand up for what I believe in because it’s…
Northern members of the Saint Vincent de Paul are troubled by the decision of the organisation’s national leadership to avoid taking a stance in the coming referendum on the Eighth Amendment, The Irish Catholic understands. “There is an unease,” Ballymena conference president, Mary Waide, said, continuing, “Our regional president is meeting the national council this…