Religious sisters feel they can’t even be listened to respectfully, writes Garry O’Sullivan “The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones,” William Shakespeare writes in Julius Caesar. “You would think we were evil” a source close to the Religious Sisters of Charity told The Irish Catholic…
‘We’ve been treated like monsters’ The Religious Sisters of Charity, who agreed to hand over their hospital and the site of the new national maternity hospital, are fearful of the media and feel bewildered that they have been so badly portrayed in the public eye since deciding to transfer ownership of St Vincent’s Hospital in…
Ireland cannot be silent on the “contempt” shown by Chinese authorities following the arrest of Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun for his support of democracy in Hong Kong, said Senator Gerard Craughwell. Speaking to The Irish Catholic, the independent senator asked “how many tonnes of beef is the human rights abuse in Hong Kong worth to…
Staff reporter The Attorney General of Northern Ireland has been granted permission to challenge the abortion exclusion zone bill through a judicial review. The bill seeks to make pro-life protest outside abortion providers illegal, but has been delayed from becoming law while a date for a hearing of the judicial review at the UK’s Supreme…
The pressure being applied to those who raise any concern with any aspects of the transgender movement is reaching a “crescendo” according to psychotherapist Stella O’Malley. This comes as Ms O’Malley requests the record of the Dail corrected, as she claims she was misquoted and her attitude towards transgender people misrepresented in the chamber by…
A roundup of sentiments expressed by TDs concerning the new National Maternity Hospital “As a young woman in my 30s, I do not want the Church next or near my reproductive rights. I stood outside the gates of this House demanding that women who were going through maternity care would have their partners with them.…
Exclusive A number of Irish bishops have engaged in a listening process with gay and lesbian Catholics as part of the synodal process, The Irish Catholic can reveal. It follows commitments from the organisers of the Irish synod – which aims to hear from diverse voices about the future direction of the Church – that what they…
I wouldn’t have voted for Sinn Féin in the Stormont elections and in general I am not an admirer of the party as it is presently constituted. It has changed a lot since my Galwegian maternal grandmother, Mary Conroy, joined it in the early days, soon after 1905 – supportive of its agenda of Irish…
The European Parliament May 3 adopted a report on the persecution of religious minorities that has been denounced as “openly hostile towards religion” by human rights experts. Second-class rights The report, Persecution of minorities on the grounds of belief or religion, was criticised by the Catholic Church, with the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of…
Staff reporter A recent peer-reviewed study has debunked claims that legalising euthanasia or assisted suicide (EAS) leads to fewer non-assisted suicides. Director of the UK’s Anscombe Bioethics Centre David Jones said that their study, Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide, and Suicide Rates in Europe, has shown that current European data reveals a “consistent association” with increased suicide…
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