Fr Eddie Moore retires after 50th anniversary
Month: October 2013
Mary Kenny was correct on abortion
Dear Editor, Your columnist Mary Kenny’s report ‘Being neutral on abortion’ (IC 10/10/13) on the recent Irish Times article by Anthea McTiernan was both correct and insightful. Ms McTiernan is correctly quoted as writing that “abortion is normal” as Mary Kenny stated. Ms McTiernan further drew a comparison between women travelling to Britain for an…
Protecting the rights of children
Dear Editor, How frustrating that when disgraceful shortcomings are pointed out in the State’s failure to protect and vindicate the rights of children that vested interests always blame a ‘lack of resources’. What resources were lacking when social workers, backed by the full authority of the Garda Síochana, removed two Roma children from their family…
The Mediterranean – a cemetery for desperate migrants
How many more lives will be lost before ‘Fortress Europe’ acts to help Italy with the flow of immigrants?
Catholics can’t retreat from the world
Pope Francis is calling us to look at the world in a new way, writes Phil Lawler
Middle East Christians an ‘example for all’ – prelate
Paul KeenanPersecuted Christians around the world should serve as a warning to others to “become better, stronger Christians” a prelate in Iraq has said. In a message to Christians in the Western world, Archbishop Amel Shamon Nona of the Chaldean Archeparchy of Mosul, said that in the role he has held only since January of this…
Police ‘ran away’ during Egypt church shooting
Egypt – The Coptic community has accused security forces of running away as gunmen attacked a church on October 20. According to an eyewitness who was in an office overlooking the main entrance to the Church of the Virgin Mary in Cairo, when a gunman on a motorcycle began firing into a group attending a…
Flogging senyence for ‘Communion wine’ Christians
Iran – Four Christians have been sentenced to flogging after police discovered them consuming wine during a communion service at their house church. Behzad Taalipasand, Mehdi Reza Omidi, Mehdi Dadkhah and Amir Hatemi will receive 80 lashes each for the offence, despite the constitutional protections supposedly offered to non-Muslim worship in Iran. Commenting on the…
Sultanate introduces sharia law
Brunei – The south-east Asian sultanate has introduced elements of sharia law into its Penal Code. Announcing the introduction, over the next six months, of punishments such as stoning for adultery, hand amputation for thieves, and flogging for a host of misdemeanours, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah said: “By the grace of Allah, with the coming into…
Kenya Christians defiant after shootings
Kenya – Christian leaders have vowed to continue to pray at their places of worship despite the recent slaying of two pastors, one of them in his church as he read his Bible. The two killings, in and near to the port city of Mombasa have been blamed on Islamic extremists, and were possibly carried…