Theologians have defended St John Paul II’s teaching on sexuality following criticism from the former Archbishop of Dublin, who accused him of “bad theology” regarding the use of condoms.
The absence of the North’s Assembly is allowing fear and mistrust to breed, a senior Belfast youth worker has warned, after the PSNI reported a rise in sectarian attacks.
More than a thousand people, mostly parents, took to the streets of Belfast on Saturday to protest against legislation that imposes the teaching of abortion in secondary schools in the North.
The work of an Irish priest-scientist is to be recognised by inclusion on Met Éireann’s list of storm names for the 2023-2024 season.
Pope Francis has warned that next month’s synodal gathering in Rome will be a prayerful exercise in dialogue free from ideology, not full of “political chatter” like a television talk show.
A priest has said that while each year people hear the statistics of deaths on Irish roads, “when this awful situation lands on your doorstep, then you know these are not just numbers” in a funeral homily following the death of three family members.
A Louth councillor has criticised the decision of Louth County Council’s Drogheda district to remove the ‘freedom of Drogheda’ award given to Bro. Edmund Garvey, the former head of the Christian Brothers
Mother Agnes O’Shea, formerly abbess of Glencairn Abbey from 1995 to 2001, died on September 2 at the age of 92.
Attendees of the Ploughing Championships in Ratheniska Co. Laois are being encouraged to visit the Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin’s stand and name their favourite saint.
Augustinian theologian, ecumenist and author Fr Gabriel Daly died peacefully on August 30, at the age of 96.
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