Forgiveness is key to overcoming the violent legacy of Northern Ireland’s past, a well-known ecumenical priest has said. Speaking ahead of a Belfast-based festival aimed to create peace in the country, Fr Martin Magill of St John’s Parish on the Falls Road told The Irish Catholic that over the past few decades “so much hurt…
Catholic schools and parish communities play a vital role in welcoming and supporting families stuck in Direct Provision centres, a Cork-based priest has said. Commenting on the Millstreet centre, which campaigners believe has the largest number of children of all the Cork Direct Provision sites, Fr John Fitzgerald said that many asylum seekers are well-integrated…
The world’s largest social media platform has banned advertising of a pro-life movie as it has been dubbed a ‘political ad’. Facebook reportedly denied authorisation of ads promoting the US anti-abortion Roe v. Wade film starring Jon Voight and Stacey Dash. The film aims to tell the story of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court…
The Church should prepare to sell large numbers of Catholic schools to the State and use the money to strengthen remaining Catholic schools, leading commentator Maria Steen has said. Mrs Steen – a columnist with The Irish Catholic – and spokesperson for The Iona Institute has warned that the continued situation where the State is…
Albany’s Catholic bishop has called on New York Governer Andrew Cuomo to stop the ‘Death Star’ as he called a bill in the state legislature to expand current state law on abortion that has the full backing of Cuomo, a Catholic. “Although in your recent State of the State address you cited your Catholic faith…
Ireland’s reliance on Muslim doctors in hospitals around the country may derail Government plans to roll out a national abortion service, a leading obstetrician has said. Large numbers of non-consultant hospital doctors (NCHDs) working in maternity units outside Dublin are Muslims from abroad, according to Dr Trevor Hayes of Kilkenny’s St Luke’s Hospital, who says…
Swathes of young people are at risk of gambling addiction across the country given the sheer lack of support mechanisms tackling the issue. According to Stephen Hughes, Senior Youth worker in Belfast’s St Peter’s Immaculata Youth Centre, gambling addiction among young people is at crisis point as there are currently no provisions for those aged…
The man who made a 2004 accusation of misconduct against Archbishop Theodore McCarrick has said he is in disbelief after Cardinal Donald Wuerl told him he forgot about the allegation sometime after becoming Washington’s archbishop in 2006. Wuerl wrote to Washington, DC priests that “when I was asked if I had any previous knowledge of…
A government spokesman said Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is open to dialogue with the country’s bishops, after the president recently suggested that citizens of the country kill the Church leaders. Tensions have increased between Duterte and the bishops as Church leaders have continued to condemn the president’s brutal war on drugs. Since Duterte’s rise to…
Hundreds of Filipinos from all across Ireland gathered in Dublin last week for the annual Santo Niño procession, with over 400 attending Mass in St Joseph’s Church on the city’s Berkeley Road afterwards. “It’s a very big Filipino celebration,” Fr Martin McDonald OFM told The Irish Catholic, adding that this celebration of the Holy Infant…
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