Staff Reporter An ancient codex containing what is believed to be the earliest, most complete copy of the Hebrew Bible ever discovered is expected to go for $50 million at auction this May. ‘Codex Sassoon’, which dates back to around the 9th or 10th Century, is due to come up for auction at Sotheby’s in…
Well-known Christian psychologist and political commentator Dr Jordan Peterson has criticised a video which advises Irish teachers what to do when pupils want to identify as the opposite gender. Taking to Twitter, Dr Peterson told his 3.9 million followers that the content of the video used by the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) was “faux…
Two Nicaraguan priests, part of the group of more than 200 political prisoners released February 9 by the regime of Daniel Ortega, celebrated Mass with their compatriots in exile at Sts Agatha Church in Sweetwater, Florida. After the Mass, Fr Benito Enrique Martínez, from the Diocese of León, and Fr José Luis Díaz, from the…
In the case known as “Coup I,” Bolivia’s attorney general’s office has requested that 10 bishops testify regarding their role in the alleged 2019 coup d’état that led to the resignation of President Evo Morales. Archbishop Percy Galván of La Paz, the nation’s capital, charged that the move is an attempt to “intimidate us,” and…
Irish convents formed the “backbone of Irish Catholic society” for centuries, but they have been largely ignored, an Irish historian has said. Convents and the women religious in them were “hugely significant” to the development of the Church and Irish State, Dr Gillian O’Brien told The Irish Catholic. Dr O’Brien is leading a project to…
Dublin’s RDS was packed for the Divine Mercy Conference that took place over the weekend after a two-year hiatus due to Covid-19. At the closing Mass, Archbishop of Dublin Dermot Farrell thanked all those who attended and encouraged them to resist the temptation facilitated by social media to “speak ill of another”. “We live in…
Missionary injured by land mine has foot amputated An Italian-born Catholic priest has undergone numerous gruelling surgeries, eventually losing his foot, after he sustained injuries in a land mine explosion in the Central African Republic (CAR). The Catholic pontifical and charity foundation Aid to the Church in Need International (ACN) reported that Fr Norberto Pozzi,…
The Canadian government has introduced legislation to delay by one year plans to include mental illness among the list of conditions eligible for the country’s assisted suicide program. The assisted suicide law – called Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) – excludes Canadians from eligibility whose only medical condition is mental illness. In 2021 lawmakers excluded…
There was a full house in Trinity College Dublin for a talk on the life of St Titus Brandsma, who was killed by the Nazis for speaking out against anti-Jewish laws. Dr Fernando Millán Romeral O.Carm., former prior general of St Brandsma’s Carmelite congregation, explored the saint’s battle for truth and freedom in his February…
‘Pope’s ministry is for life’, says Pope Francis Pope Francis addressed once again the question of whether he will resign the papacy in two conversations with Jesuit priests in Africa this month. “I believe that the pope’s ministry is ad vitam. I see no reason why it should not be so,” the Pope said February…
Chai Brady