A Dublin councillor has said that Ireland’s blasphemy laws apply to all minority groups, and that Muslims shouldn’t receive “special provisions” that make their religion exempt from criticism. Keith Redmond, an independent councillor for Howth-Malahide told The Irish Catholic that last year’s referendum results shows the “vast majority” of people in the country don’t believe…
A recently commissioned painting of Trinity College graduate Blessed John Sullivan SJ was unveiled in the university yesterday, to mark his beatification. John Sullivan, who was beatified in 2017 in Dublin, grew up in the Church of Ireland, and was a graduate and gold medallist in Classics. While studying Law in London subsequently he became…
More than 1,000 people marched to “save” a Donegal hospital over the weekend, with a local priest saying “we were on fire”. The march on March 23 was the second organised after plans were announced in 2016 to build a new 130 bed centre in Letterkenny. Fr John Joe Duffy, Chairperson of the Save our…
The professional body for doctors in the UK dropped its traditional opposition to assisted suicide, despite a poll that found a majority of its members remain opposed to the practice. The Royal College of Physicians declared it has adopted a policy of neutrality, although a majority of doctors said they were against assisted suicide. In…
‘Special attention’ for migrants at Francis’ Morocco visit Pope Francis wanted to go to Morocco in December to draw attention to the need for international cooperation in assisting migrants and in alleviating the situations that force people to seek a better life outside their homeland. Protocol dictated that he could not fly to Marrakech just for the United Nations meeting on migration,…
Staff and students of St Patrick’s College, Cavan, gathered earlier this month to thank Dr Leo O’Reilly, former Bishop of Kilmore, for his much-appreciated work in the diocese on the occasion of his retirement. Bishop O’Reilly said his last Mass in Kilmore Diocesan Pastoral Centre’s Conaty Chapel on March 8 in the presence of the…
Marriage counsellors wanted as Accord launches recruitment drive Accord, the Catholic Marriage Care Service, has urged counsellors to enrol in their Certificate in Counselling. The course will run from October 2019 through June 2020 and will be run in conjunction with the Pontifical University in Maynooth. Executive administrator Harry Casey said marriage counsellors are in demand more than ever. “Marriage and families…
Simon Caldwell The professional body for doctors in the U.K. has dropped its traditional opposition to assisted suicide, despite a poll that found a majority of its members remain opposed to the practice. The Royal College of Physicians has declared it has adopted a policy of neutrality, although a majority of doctors said they…
Pope Francis has made it more than obvious that he does not like people kissing his ring. The viral video of him yanking his right hand away from a string of about 17 people coming up to him one-by-one during a trip to Loreto, Italy, on March 25, caught many people by surprise because of…
Pope Francis has expressed his grief for the loss of life caused by the sinking of a ferry in the Tigris River near the Iraqi city of Mosul. In a telegramme signed on his behalf by Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Pope said he is deeply saddened to learn of the accident and expressed his prayerful…
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