Education is now available at first, second and third levels on the campus of St Michael’s College in Dublin. Dublin has now joined Rome as only the second European country to host the overseas programme of Duquesne University, the United States only Spiritan university. With the arrival of 12 students this month, St…
Month: September 2013
In spite of evil, God does continue to work
God writes straight with crooked lines. That axiom sounds clever, but is there real truth or depth to it? Can good ever really arise out of evil? Do love, truth, and justice ever work out through hatred, lies, and injustice? Do crooked lines really straighten?The answer to those questions will invariably be negative when we…
Protest asks Irish Times to ‘tell the truth on abortion’
A protest outside The Irish Times offices in Dublin last Saturday heard women ask the paper to “tell the truth on abortion” and stop misleading the public. The protest took place as controversy continues over the clarification by The Irish Times that its report of the “first abortion carried out under new legislation” “did…
Police patrol threatened Catholic schools
Cathal Barry
Police patrolled outside three Catholic schools in north Belfast this week after an alleged loyalist threat of “military action” against pupils. It has been claimed the threat was issued by the Red Hand Defenders, a loyalist paramilitary group based in Northern Ireland. The paramilitary group said parents, pupils and staff were “no longer…
Welcome to the world of ‘life sciences’
Choosing the sex (or, as some say, the gender) of a child may have been an aspiration that parents have sometimes wished for, throughout history: think of a family with four girls wanting a son, or vice-versa. And now clinics in San Diego, California are offering this choice to men through a process of sperm…
Homelessness ‘out of control’ – charity
Homeless services are in a worse state now than ever before, according to the Peter McVerry Trust which launched its 2012 annual report this week. After 30 years of working to eliminate homelessness, the trust said the problem is now worse than ever, perhaps even out of control. According to its 2012 annual…
‘No evidence’ celibacy leads to abuse
Claims that priestly celibacy leads to sexual abuse have been rejected by a leading expert. US-based Prof. Philip Jenkins, who has spent decades researching the area told The Irish Catholic this week that there is “no evidence whatever that Catholic or other celibate clergy are any more or less likely to be involved in…