Staff Reporter Primate of All-Ireland Archbishop Eamon Martin will address the challenges facing the family in modern Ireland at The Irish Catholic national conference later this month. It will be the archbishop’s first major address on the issue since he participated with Pope Francis in the worldwide Synod of Bishops on the family in the Vatican…
The leading US Democratic candidate has said she believes ISIS’ campaign against Christians constitutes genocide. Hillary Clinton was asked at a New Hampshire meeting whether she would join faith and secular leaders from across the political divide “in calling what is happening by its proper name, genocide”. She replied that she would do so “because…
Archbishop Eamon Martin has said that claims that non-believers are being forced to baptise their children in order to get them into their local Catholic school are “hugely overstated”. Speaking to The Irish Catholic, the Primate of All-Ireland said people would be “almost forgiven for thinking every Catholic school in this country are insisting on…
South Africa’s Catholic justice and peace commission has called for a halt to nuclear procurement plans and a referendum on the issue, claiming that the risks of adding nuclear energy to the financially beleaguered country’s power grid outweigh its economic benefits. According to a statement from the commission’s chairman, Kimberley’s Bishop Abel Gabuza, the country…
BBC broadcaster Adrian Chiles has complained that the media has come to see religion only in terms of fanaticism and turned its back on millions of ordinary worshippers of all faiths. “Jesus said, ‘The meek will inherit the Earth.’ Well, they might do but they get no press along the way at all, they’re completely…
‘An ocean of mercy transcends human misery’ – Pope God’s mercy transcends the misery that so often marks human experience, Pope Francis has said. “A torrent of misery, swollen by sin, seems to contradict the fullness of time brought by Christ”, he said in a homily at St Peter’s Basilica on January 1, asking, “how can the fullness of time have come when…
Doctor’s duty to protect every life – PLC The Pro-Life Campaign (PLC) has criticised remarks made by the new master of the Rotunda hospital concerning abortion in the case of babies diagnosed with life-limiting conditions. PLC Deputy Chairperson Cora Sherlock said unborn babies with serious medical conditions “are among the most vulnerable members of Irish society”.…
The coffin of Gisela Mota, mayor of Temixco, Mexico, is carried from her home. Ms Mota was killed on January 2, one day after taking her oath of office. Cuernavaca’s Bishop Ramon Castro Castro said the murder had clearly been intended to send the message “if you don’t cooperate with organised crime, look at what’s…
Bishop Kevin Doran has rejected an accusation by a Labour party TD that he is “scaremongering at the highest level” on the issue of abortion in the run-up to the general election. Anne Ferris, a Labour TD for Wicklow, had criticised Bishop Doran’s stance that any political attempts to legislate for terminations in cases of…
Bishop John McAreavey is representing Ireland in a delegation of bishops making a 10-day visit to vulnerable Christian communities in the Middle East this week. The Bishop of Dromore joins bishops from across Europe, North America and South Africa on the visit to communities in Gaza, Bethlehem and refugees in Jordan for the meeting of…
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