With a flourish he inherited from Argentina’s legendarily populist political force, Peronism, Pope Francis from the beginning has been a vocal champion of labour and workers’ rights, backing measures such as equal pay for equal jobs between men and women, affordable housing and land, and living wages. Just last week, during his daily morning Mass,…
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The legalisation of surrogacy would be “the final blow” against the family in Italian law, the head of Italy’s bishops’ conference has said, saying surrogacy “exploits the female body” and profits from the poverty of women. Addressing members of the bishops’ conference, Genoa’s Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco said under a new law civil unions are implicitly…
The group from Ardglass parish who won the treasure hunt in the Co. Down town at the Living Youth ‘Parish GIFT fun day’ on Sunday for the southern parishes in Down & Connor, to celebrate the completion of the parish-based faith programme: Connie Harney (leader), Patrick Gordon, Grainne Wills, Eimear Teggart, Kelly Lennon, Ryan Devlin…
A Slovak nun shot and wounded in South Sudan has died in a Nairobi hospital where she had been in a coma. Holy Spirit Missionary Sister Veronika Terezia Rackova, the director of Yei’s St Bakhita Medical was evacuated to Nairobi on May 17, shortly after being shot in the stomach while driving an ambulance. Soldiers…
Broadcaster Chris Donoghue has paid tribute to religious nuns and brothers for the “comfort” they provided during difficult stages of his life. The Newstalk Breakfast presenter spoke candidly on Brendan O’Connor’s Cutting Edge of the death of his mother at 14 and battling cancer at 23. “You know what you expect somebody my age, who…
The success of US dioceses in implementing child protection procedures should not lead to complacency, the annual report on the implementation of the bishops’ ‘Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People’ has warned. Introducing the report, Francesco C. Cesareo, chairman of the all-lay National Review Board, said this year’s audit results “continue to…
A Co. Tyrone man has described the birth of his son as “truly a miracle” after his wife went against doctors’ advice to have an abortion. Doctors had advised Liam Glass and his wife Cindy that their unborn child had no spleen and would not survive more than a week after birth. However, baby David…
Mercy is common ground for renewal Catholics and Lutherans are finding common ground in “the original, fundamental” emphasis of Martin Luther on “the Gospel of grace and mercy and a call to conversion and renewal”, the former president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity has said. Arguing in a new book that next year’s ecumenical commemoration of the…
New general secretary for CPSMA Seamus Mulconry has been appointed as the new general secretary for the Catholic Primary Schools Management Association (CPSMA). CPSMA chairman Martin Hanrahan welcomed the appointment saying Mr Mulconry’s experience as former director of Philanthropy Ireland “will greatly support boards of management and principals of Catholic primary schools as they seek to meet the many…
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