Three formal complaints have been lodged with Mary Immaculate College (MIC) over the recruitment process for the Head of Theology role, The Irish Catholic has learned. There were “substantive issues” with the process, including the shortlisting for interviews, sources say, with three complainants formally contacting the college through their union. It is unclear under which…
A new Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) report has revealed that over 50% of people live in a country with serious religious persecution, with ACN Ireland director Michael Kinsella saying that religious freedom is a “very telling barometer” of the extent of human rights within a country. The 2023 Religious Freedom in the…
Irish missionary Sr Cyril Mooney, whose work enabled thousands of disadvantaged girls in India to receive proper education, has died in Kolkata at the age of 86. Sr Mooney was an “eminent educational reformer, social worker and friend of the poor”, according to Chief minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee. “Her contribution to State welfare…
Legislation to criminalise so-called “conversion therapy” practices in Ireland is unnecessary and could impede patients suffering with gender dysphoria from getting medical help, according to doctors with the National Gender Service (NGS). Responding to an announcement by the Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman that he would bring forward legislation in the coming weeks with a view…
US firm PublicSq recently announced that it will offer employees a bonus if they have a baby or adopt a child. This comes as a number of companies in the US continue to pay their employees time off or travel expenses to get an abortion in the wake of last year’s overturning of Roe v.…
An Irish judge has noted as a sign of a lack of remorse the fact that a man guilty of the manslaughter of his elderly aunt neglected to say the act of contrition in her ear as she lay dying. 59-year-old farmer Michael Scott of Portumna in Co. Galway has been jailed for six years…
Fr Mark Condon has been appointed diocesan vocations director for the Diocese of Ossory, as Bishop Niall Coll released his first clerical appointments. In addition to appointing a vocations director, the bishop of Ossory appointed a new director of ecumenism, Fr Brian Griffin, and vicar general, Fr Daniel Carroll. Meanwhile, three of Bishop Coll’s priests…
The summer solstice was a scorching day in the golf club of Birr, Co. Offaly this year. A golf team tournament was held to raise awareness for vocations to the diocesan priesthood, called ‘Play for Vocations.’ This event was part of the ‘Year of Vocations’ to the diocesan priesthood that was instituted two months ago…
The Diocese of Down and Connor, Co. Antrim, celebrated the centenary of Apostolic Work on June 17, marking their 100 years of supporting missionary priests, sisters and lay people in many countries around the world including Albania, Botswana, El Salvador, Malawi, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Zimbabwe to name just a few.…
Targeting asylum seekers ‘unacceptable’ The Irish Inter-Church Committee has spoken out against “the targeting of people seeking protection in Ireland” in a statement released on World Refugee Day. Following multiple incidents of protests aimed to intimidate of asylum seekers, the committee, which represents 16 Churches in Ireland, made an appeal calling for an end to…
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