RTÉ has confirmed that it will continue to offer extra religious content until the end of June while the national vaccination programme is implemented. The national broadcaster has aired weekday and Sunday Masses since the first lockdown last March in partnership with churchservices.tv. Commissioning editor of religious content at RTÉ, Roger Childs, commented, saying that…
The Israeli Embassy in Ireland has hit back at a statement by the Vatican’s Holy Land Coordination Group that Israel has a “legal responsibility” to vaccinate Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. In a statement released by the group, which included Irish bishops Dr Noel Treanor and Dr Fintan Monahan, they stated that Israel…
Poland’s constitutional court published January 21 the rationale for its declaration that abortion for foetal abnormalities is unconstitutional three months after it made the ruling. In the highly anticipated ruling on October 22, the Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw said that the law introduced in 1993 was incompatible with Poland’s constitution. But the law did not…
The Vatican’s official news agency has vowed to do better after an observant Irish reader spotted they refer to ‘UK bishops’ when they mean just prelates from England and Wales. Vatican News, a news information portal provided by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication, was taken to task by a concerned reader of The Irish Catholic…
Stating that Brazil’s federal government displayed contempt for protecting the health of the population and showed criminal conduct, 380 Brazilian Christian religious leaders filed an impeachment request against President Jair Bolsonaro for the crime of shirking his responsibilities. “Faced with the most serious public health crisis in the history of the country and the planet,…
The chairman of the US bishops’ pro-life and international policy committees said President Joe Biden’s memo rescinding the so-called ‘Mexico City policy’ January 28 is a “grievous” action that “actively promotes the destruction of human lives in developing nations”. “It is antithetical to reason, violates human dignity, and is incompatible with Catholic teaching. We and…
A priest-turned-detective in East Cork tracked down an alleged collection box thief who is now in Garda custody. The priest became aware of the thief when he found cheques for annual church donations from another parish in his collection box Sunday January 24, according to The Sun. The cleric investigated using CCTV footage from cameras…
Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz said at a farewell Mass January 24 that the Church would remain a source of strength for Catholics in Belarus despite a change in leadership. The departing archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev also promised that he would remain an active bishop at the Cathedral of the Holy Name of Mary in the capital, Minsk.…
Simon Coveney has said that the Government will be bringing the findings of the mother and baby homes report to the attention of the Holy See. Responding to an enquiry submitted by Social Democrats TD Holly Cairns, which saw Ms Cairns asking for the minister’s views on whether the final report of the Mother and Baby…
Indian Jesuit Fr Stan Swamy marked 100 days in prison with a letter highlighting the cases of poor people languishing in jail who begin their trials without even knowing their criminal charges. Ucanews.com reported on January 25 that in his letter to Jesuit colleagues, the 84-year-old priest also expressed gratitude for the “overwhelming” solidarity of…
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