The voices of medical professionals who believe Ireland’s constitutional protections for the unborn should be retained need to be heard, a leading member of the Irish Medical Council (IMC) has said. Writing in The Irish Medical Times, Drogheda-based GP Dr Ruairi Hanley says: “A new, dogmatic liberal consensus seems to be dominating all discourse, as…

The Constitution should be amended to soften the right to private property to help local authorities tackle Ireland’s housing shortage, a prominent priest-sociologist has said. Speaking at the AGM for the County Kildare Centres for the Unemployed, Fr Micheál Mac Gréil SJ acknowledged Ireland’s success in emerging from recession, but described the lack of housing…

A Catholic priest in Belfast was subjected to “vile” abuse by nationalist residents of the Ardoyne after he oversaw the end of the Twaddell Avenue protest camp on October 1. In his last act as a priest of the Ardoyne, Fr Gary Donegan was on hand to witness the conclusion of the protest that had…

Abortion on demand would be the inevitable effect of repealing the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, a leading academic has said. The most obvious legal interpretation of any vote to remove article 40.3.3 from Bunreacht na hÉireann would be that the people had chosen to abolish constitutional protections for the unborn, according to Prof. Gerry…

The Church has a key role to play in supporting rural life, Ireland’s newest bishop has said. Speaking to The Irish Catholic, Killaloe’s Bishop Fintan Monahan, who was ordained in Ennis’s Cathedral of Ss Peter and Paul on Sunday, September 25, said that among his priorities as a new bishop would be doing whatever he…

Internet giants ordered to block gender-abortion ads in India Three leading internet search engine companies have been ordered by India’s Supreme Court to block ads promoting sex-selective abortions. In a move aimed at tackling India’s huge rate of abortions of females, regularly referred to as ‘gendercide’, the court order requires Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to block searches based on 22 key words, thereby…

Young pro-life activists holding balloons to mark how the Pro Life Campaign has calculated that upwards of 100,000 Irish people are alive today who might not be so were it not for the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. 

A Christian teenager in Pakistan has fallen foul of the country’s blasphemy law for ‘liking’ a Facebook post. Police in Punjab have confirmed that the unnamed youth had been detained following his like on what has been described as an inappropriate picture of the Kaaba, the central structure in Mecca and site of the annual…

A priest of the North Belfast parish of Ardoyne has welcomed moves to end the Twaddell Avenue stand-off that has seen a loyalist protest camp maintained in the community for over two years. Speaking to The Irish Catholic this week as he prepared to depart Holy Cross parish, Fr Gary Donegan expressed his joy that…

Towards the end of Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis’ document on the family, the Pontiff writes that when priests have to make judgments in concrete cases such as pastoral care of divorced and civilly remarried Catholics, they are to do so “according to the teaching of the Church and the guidelines of the bishop”. One wonders if…