Ireland is “greatly indebted” to the work of Fr Sean Healy and Sr Brigid Reynolds, founders of Social Justice Ireland, President Michael D. Higgins has said. Speaking on the retirement of the social justice pioneers, the President of Ireland said they leave behind “a rich legacy”. “There can be no doubt that the advocacy work…
A new collection showcases diversity of the Catholic poetry, hears Ruadhán Jones Catholicism and art, like faith and science, are not supposed to mix. Art is about ‘freethinking’, so it is assumed that subscribing to dogma can only limit your talent. A new book on Catholic poets blows this myth out of the water. Collated…
Those who leave the Church have “no right to obtain erasure” of their Baptism records, the Data Protection Commission has ruled in a case of major significance across Europe. At a time when churches are facing legal challenges under GDPR to erase the Baptism records of people who ‘defect’ – technical language for those who…
Leaders of African nations have a “common bond” with Ireland due to the work of Irish missionaries, the Dáil has heard. There are leaders “all over Africa” who have been educated by Irish missionaries, which builds a “common bond that is really important”, the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade and Defence was…
St Brigid, one of the three patron saints of Ireland, returned home to Kildare town 1,500 years after her death on Sunday, January 28. Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin Denis Nulty received the relic of a bone fragment from her skull, contained inside a specially commissioned silver representation of an oak tree in a red…
The Government must expand any further inquiries into abuse at schools to include the Department of Education and the education system as a whole to achieve “justice for all” religious have warned. The call comes as a scoping inquiry into historical sexual abuse in day and boarding schools run by religious orders moves forward, led…
Relics of St Brigid are to return to her native Co. Kildare for the first time in centuries to mark the 1,500th anniversary of her death. The relics will return to Kildare on Sunday, January 28, starting with a procession from the Solas Bhride Centre run by the Brigidine Sisters to St Brigid’s Parish Church…
The proposed recognition of ‘durable relationships’ in the Constitution leaves the Government “hostage” to future generations as “no one can define” what the term means, legal experts have warned. The comments come as Minister Roderic O’Gorman claimed that ‘throuples’ and polygamous relationships will not be granted legal protection if a March 8 referendum to change…
Global sensation The Chosen is coming to Irish cinemas from February 1, with the first two episodes of season four set for the big screen. More than 600 million people have watched the multi-series life of Christ and director Dallas Jenkins felt it would do fans a disservice if it didn’t get big screen treatment.…
Negative coverage of the handover of land for the national maternity hospital, including the burning of nuns in effigy, was “distressing and painful”, the leader of the Religious Sisters of Charity (RSC) has said. Sr Patricia Lenihan, leader of the RSC’s since 2019 – a period of turmoil in which the sisters controversially gifted St…