High profile anti-vaccination advocates have hit out at this newspaper after it reported a story stating that priests and theologians said “parents are morally obliged to vaccinate their children”. Most outrage stemmed from the fact that some vaccines were developed from cell lines descending from aborted foetal tissue Irish journalist Gemma O’Doherty wrote on Twitter:…
Google has admitted that it “blacklisted” a significant number of videos on YouTube ahead of last year’s abortion referendum, and interfered with search results. This newspaper was also directly affected by the interference. Voters who searched for certain terms had the results of their searches manually altered by Google, ensuring that videos chosen by the…
Encouraging lay leadership will be a key task for tomorrow’s clergy, Bishop Larry Duffy has said. Speaking at the ordination of Fr Kevin Connolly in St Macartan’s Cathedral, Monaghan, Bishop Duffy said that as a priest Fr Connolly would be called to spend time with Jesus, pondering his life and message and celebrating his presence…
In a world that is becoming ever “busier”, books provide a gateway to evangelisation, Ossory’s Bishop Dermot Farrell has said. His comments come after he was appointed as chair of Ireland’s leading religious publisher and retailer Veritas. “It is good to be working [with] everyone at Veritas who for the past 120 years have been,…
Under persistent heavy rain and a grey overcast sky, the annual Corpus Christi Procession assembled after the 2.00pm Polish Mass, at St Conleth’s Parish Church, Kildare, to make its way down to St Eustace’s Dominican Grounds for Solemn open-air Benediction. Nothing deterred the enthusiastic participation of the congregation. Under an exquisitely embroidered antique canopy provided…
The Archdiocese of Dublin is set to receive €95 million from the GAA for almost 20 acres of land in Drumcondra, Co. Dublin. The site has potential to accommodate 1,200 apartments, while the conversion of buildings already on-site could provide more residential accommodation. According to the Irish Times it is understood three parties have been…
Hundreds of families and friends who have lost loved ones in “very traumatic circumstances” attended a prayer service in their memory over the weekend. Over 300 people travelled from across the country to Embrace Farm’s (Farm Accident Support Network) Ecumenical Remembrance Service on Sunday June 30 in the Church of the Most Holy Rosary in…
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…
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