Praying in public is of vital importance to the outcome of the referendum on the Eighth Amendment, according to campaigners. “In the battle for life, we have to do the canvasing and everything else, yes, but we are not going to win without prayer because it is very much a spiritual battle,” pro-life advocate Kathy Sinnott told…
Describing the people involved in the looting of a Lidl in Tallaght as ‘scumbags’ or worse, dehumanises not only the hardened criminals, but young children too. Having lived in Brookfield for two decades – one of the most socially-disadvantaged areas in Tallaght – the overwhelming feeling in the community is apathy, and in many cases,…
Government pensions plan is a missed opportunity Campaigners have called for the introduction of a universal pension in Ireland, in response to the failure of the Government’s new pensions plan to address “major issues around equity, sustainability and bureaucracy”. A Universal State Social Welfare Pension, published by Social Justice Ireland analyses Ireland’s pension system and…
Ahead of his ordination as the new Bishop of Ossory, Msgr Dermot Farrell has acknowledged that many people have lost trust in institutions but that he hopes “we will not be just be people who proclaim the Word, but people who do it”. In a pastoral message issued on Sunday the bishop-elect told parishioners that…
Linguistic acrobatics used to deny baby’s humanity – bishop The bishop of Kilmore has given a pastoral message defending the Eighth Amendment, maintaining that the question of abortion is not primarily a religious issue, but an “ethical” and “human rights issue”. Bishop Leo O’Reilly issued the statement on March 6, saying that a compassionate response…
WMOF Sharon Dunne In preparation for the World Meeting of Families 2018, the Archdiocese of Armagh formed a Core Group in November 2016 after the national launch in October of that year. The purpose of the Core Group was twofold. First of all, to gather people from across the Archdiocese of Armagh, north and…
WMOF Janet Forbes Ardboe Parish is a community of approximately 1400 families situated on the western shores of Lough Neagh. The Parish has a history of Christian community stretching back to St Colman in 590 AD when he founded the old monastic church at Ardboe. The community has the tallest High Cross in Ireland,…
WMOF Brendan McKiernan In mid-2017 our parish invited Sr Ann and Sharon Dunne from the Armagh Diocesan Pastoral Centre, to a sharing of ideas gathering. At this gathering, requested by Fr Malachy Murphy PP and the Parish Pastoral Council, the parish discussed initiatives which had the potential to bring families together as a faith…
Alex Ferns The Supreme Court ruling that the right to life is the only constitutional right the unborn have in Ireland makes it more important than ever that that right be protected, the Pro Life Campaign (PLC) has said. Today’s decision, PLC legal adviser Prof. William Binchy said, makes the retention of the Eighth…
Parishes should focus their resources on becoming missionary communities rather than on just preserving buildings, Bishop Phonsie Cullinan has said. The Bishop of Waterford and Lismore told The Irish Catholic that “a parish will quite happily renovate a church for half a million euro, but I would have to ask the question of whether it…
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