EXCLUSIVE Garry O’Sullivan Leading Irish newspapers The Irish Times, The Irish Examiner will tomorrow (Saturday) issue formal printed apologies to one of the two young seminarians falsely accused last year in a fake seminarian sex scandal story emanating from the Irish College in Rome. Large damages are also believed to be part of the…
Only 74% of Irish trust medical vaccines Colm Fitzpatrick and Chai Brady Parents are morally obliged to vaccinate their children if it poses a serious risk to their health, priests and theologians have said. With over 20 confirmed measles cases in the Dublin area since the beginning of the year, and other fringe outbreaks…
The Irish Catholic has scooped a major international religious journalism prize for the second year running. The ‘Welcome, Pope Francis’ special issue won first place in the ‘Best special supplement – one-time special issue’ category of the Catholic Press Awards, held this year in St Petersburg, Florida. The award to the staff of The Irish…
A prayer service to comfort families will be held in Leixlip, Co. Kildare this Sunday in the wake of the tragic murder of Ana Kriegel (14, pictured). Confey parish is organising the service “for people to come to pray for families who are hurting and grieving and for the entire parish community”, according to Administrator…
The Archdiocese of Dublin has offered no objection after a Wicklow primary school’s decision to introduce a new policy that will allow girls to wear trousers and boys to wear skirts in September. Uniform policy is decided by individual schools, with this policy seemingly aimed at transgender children. The Vatican recently reiterated its opposition to gender…
Madison Duddy A Derry-based priest has dubbed First Communion celebrations as an “empty show” for many, as few children return to church after receiving the Sacrament. Fr Paddy O’Kane of Holy Family Parish told this newspaper that many Communicants aren’t committed to the Faith and that the church-return rate afterwards is low. His comments…
A ten-year-old boy is walking the Camino to raise funds for children exposed to violence and poverty on the streets. Christopher Nugent from Ballina in Co. Mayo is currently journeying on his third Camino, this time walking 400 kilometres from Saint Jean Pied de Port in France to Leon in Spain, with his father Robert.…
ChaiBrady and Madison Duddy The Pro Life Campaign is working on programmes aimed to “empower young people” to be future leaders in the pro-life movement in Ireland in order to sustain the fight for life. Inés Lonergan, a pro-life student, told this paper the group are currently working on programmes to engage youth to be…
Pro-life groups have decried a decision to appoint a former director of abortion provider Marie Stopes to the NI Equality Commission (NIEC), dubbing it a “conflict of interest”. Dawn Purvis, who is also a former PUP leader, was one of nine new commission members appointed by Secretary of State Karen Bradley for the next three…
A Tipperary priest has urged the government to tackle the country’s current suicide and mental health crisis. In a meeting with mental health minister Jim Daly, Fr Michael Toomey of Clonmel raised serious concerns about the lack of resources in the county to address this epidemic, stressing that the county has had a higher than…
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