Cathal BarryThe Pro Life Campaign has strongly criticised the European Commission over its decision not to take any legislative action to prevent EU funding of destructive research on living human embryos. On Wednesday, the Commission formally rejected the ‘One of Us’ petition which was signed by almost 2 million people from 20 EU Member States calling…
Month: May 2014
Worshippers massacred in CAR church attack
Paul KeenanFifteen dead as gunmen storm church in Bangui
A tired old formula that cruises on autopilot
Aubrey MaloneBlended (12A) When a couple in a romantic comedy despise each other in the opening scene of a film it’s a pretty safe bet they’re going to fall head over heels in love before the end. This is just one of the unsurprising ‘surprises’ in Blended, which has so many clichéd scenarios it could have been…
What do we really see when we gaze upon the city?
Fr Ronald RolheiserJesus loved the world even as he criticised it harshly
Fond memories of John Paul II
Dear Editor, Your issue of May 15 mentions the Pope's visit to Ireland in 1979. I had a tiny involvement in it, in that I am the father of one of the six young children of Aer Lingus staff who were chosen to greet the Pope when he arrived in Dublin on an Aer Lingus…
The march towards same-sex marriage
Dear Editor, Marriage and society are being re-defined. Those who do not accept homosexual behaviour as normative are legally being forced to embrace the rationalisation or be silent in the face of it. Those who oppose homosexual acts are being labelled homophobes and it is these that are becoming the victims of hatred. What better…
Vocations need more effort
Dear Editor, What a sad convergence of news Ireland’s faithful faced last week. Hot on the heels of criticism levelled by the former National Coordinator for Diocesan Vocations, Fr Paddy Rushe, (IC 22/5/14) on an apparent lack of Church focus on promoting vocations came news of the closure of All Hallows College after 172 years…
Pope Francis and renewing Catholic Ireland
Dear Editor, The missed element in Andrew O’Connell’s Notebook ‘Revisiting the legacy of the papal visit’ (IC 15/5/14) is the question as to whether a visit to Ireland by Pope Francis could lead to the same effect on people here as that most memorable 1979 visit undertaken by now St John Paul II. Quite rightly…
Quotes of the Week May 29
“The situation remains tense, because it is not clear what lies beneath and what the various militias want to do. I have never found myself in such a critical situation. We hope common sense prevails. Pray for us, because the only force is that of prayer that moves the hearts of people.” Bishop Giovanni Martinelli,…
Lawyer lodges death sentence appeal in Sudan apostasy case
Death sentence woman gives birth