The tech giant has a surprisingly long history of suppressing Catholic speech, writes Ian Dunn Facebook may not be the trendiest platform, but it remains incredibly popular. Every month, more than 3 billion people log in. The company’s grand mission statement is “to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer…
Reform isn’t enough to improve the UN Security Council, writes Michael Sanfey Earlier this month the British Foreign Secretary and his French counterpart co- authored an op-ed celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Entente Cordiale, a diplomatic agreement between the United Kingdom and France. “We have helped to forge a better world,” they wrote in…
Three really important elections are set to take place in the coming months – the local and European elections in early June, and a General Election sometime this year or early next year, at the latest. All three elections will determine who represents us for the next five years. It’s why from a pro-life standpoint…
War in Gaza has become a “way of life”, according to a Franciscan priest in the Holy Land. On Tuesday, Israel sent tanks to parts of the northern Gaza Strip, while warplanes conducted strikes on Rafah in the south of the territory, killing and wounding several people, according two local officials. The Israeli offensive in…
Entertainment isn’t always life-giving. Recently, after a funeral, I spoke with a man, he was probably in his late 30s or early 40s. He was Irish and had been raised a Catholic. His story is all too common among our fellow Irish Catholics. He had received all the sacraments of initiation, Baptism, Eucharist and Confirmation.…
Justin robinson OSB An Armenian flag fluttered atop a pile of rubble in the cool evening, a welcome respite from the khamsin storm which had oppressed Jerusalem with days of hot dusty clouds coming from the deserts of Arabia. Hundreds of people shared a delicious buffet meal in the shadow of the flag and…
Church in Ireland is facing a very well publicised crisis in vocations to the priesthood, one which the recently ended Year for Vocation was an attempt to tackle. If we’re not careful, our local Church could be facing a second vocations crisis – this time among the laity – and the window is narrowing in…
Ecclesiastical structures are only useful if they allow our parishes to be vibrant places where people encounter God, writes Michael Kelly While all eyes were on the cabinet reshuffle of Taoiseach Simon Harris, officials in Rome were preparing to announce details of the Pope’s reshuffle of sorts of the Irish ecclesiastical landscape. While Ireland has…
It won’t be surprise to learn that Ireland is growing richer, and there are, in the words of a leading accountant, “an awful lot of people making money” in Ireland today. The number of ‘super-rich’ individuals – those with over €20 million in their possession – has increased by 200 over the past two years,…
Let’s value the gift the Lord has given to women religious as Brides of Christ, writes Martina Purdy An Anglican minister met me recently, a lovely woman who was very frank about a complaint made to her by an Anglican nun. This sister was frustrated at the lack of vocations to her convent in England. …
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