Staff reporter The Pro-Life Campaign have criticised the inclusion of the Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill on the Government’s legislative programme. The bill proposes “to ensure safe access” to premises at which abortions may take place, according to the programme released Tuesday April 26. This would create areas around abortion facilities that…
The Archdiocese of Dublin will be auctioning hundreds of items from its former seminary in order to make space to house Ukrainian refugees. Taking place on May 10, there will be more than 600 lots from Clonliffe College in Drumcondra auctioned. Viewing on site is currently taking place and will continue until Monday, May 9.…
A Catholic couple stand by their decision to travel over 70km to attend Mass during lockdown, saying they would rather go to jail than pay a €300 fine. Jim Ryan (64) and his wife Ann (59) were summoned to court earlier this month for exceeding the 5km limit on Palm Sunday last year. The couple…
The US Supreme Court will vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that legalised abortion nationwide, according to draft opinion cited in a news report released Monday evening. “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. writes in the purported 98-page draft document, obtained by Politico, which…
The Catholic Bishops of Northern Ireland’s NI election appeal, ‘Make Your Voices Heard’ was refused publication by the Belfast Telegraph, having initially agreed to publish it. The Belfast Telegraph took issue with passages in the appeal pertaining to pro-life values and unborn life. Taking to Twitter, Archbishop of Armagh Eamon Martin said he was “disturbed…
Catholics in Cologne who responded to a survey preparing for the 2023 worldwide Synod of Bishops on synodality have called for big changes in the Church. The German Catholic news agency KNA reported that a statement on the archdiocese’s website noted a majority of respondents called for the Faithful to be given greater self-determination and…
The Knights of Columbanus’ mission is “more important than ever” as human rights issues continue to dominate in the North, a spokesperson said. The Knights were set up in a time when “human rights issues were big in Northern Ireland, and we’re facing a different set of problems today”, said their communications officer Colm O’Farrell,…
Staff reporter “Thank you from my heart for this beautiful book,” was the message from Pope Francis to Editor of The Irish Catholic Michael Kelly during a recent audience at the Vatican. Mr Kelly was presenting the Pontiff with a copy of his new book An Irish Pilgrimage Guide to the Holy Land. The fruit…
Spanish Cardinal Amigo Vallejo dies at 87 Spanish Cardinal Carlos Amigo Vallejo, a medical student turned Franciscan and a much-loved Archbishop of Seville, died in Spain on April 27 at the age of 87. He had experienced a number of complications after suffering a fall in February and died at a university hospital outside of…
The former director of the Vatican’s financial watchdog agency told the Vatican court that his office’s minimal involvement in a costly property deal was at the behest of Pope Francis and several top Vatican officials. Tommaso Di Ruzza, the former director of the Vatican watchdog agency, then known as the Financial Information Authority, or AIF,…
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