Cathal BarryThe Pro Life Campaign has said the Government’s guidelines on abortion issued last week “reinforce the obscenity of the new law”. The organisation also claims that as a direct result of last year’s abortion law, “a defenceless baby at this very moment is clinging to life in an Irish hospital”. PLC deputy chairperson Cora Sherlock…
Month: September 2014
Innocent until proven guilty
Mary KennyMary Flaherty, the CEO of Children at Risk in Ireland has called on former President Mary McAleese to name, publicly, the cleric who, she said, laughed at her when asked to reveal details of sexual abuse in the Church in Ireland. The cleric should certainly be identified since he is now being judged guilty without…
Persecution of Christians ‘intolerable’ – Flanagan
The minister also pointed out that his department had received a publication listing 60 countries where Christians were persecuted
Parents can control what children access online
Courtney McGrailCourtney McGrail takes a look at the types of software available to stop children accessing unsuitable material online
Cuban cardinal tells Canadians to start small, ‘we may not get tired’
Mags Gargan“We have to start, knowing someone is going up a ladder”: Cardinal Ortega
A tale with a tender heart
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
Deacons don’t replace lay parish volunteers
Dear Editor, I find the opposition to deacons hard to understand. I live in the UK and we have had married deacons for the last 40 years. Ordained deacons are usually married men with a family, so there is no chance they will take over functions presently undertaken by lay people. Even if they wanted…
On the issue of women deacons
Dear Editor, Regarding the question of the diaconate for women, it might be of interest to know what St Edith Stein had to say on the subject. Edith Stein was a Jewish Carmelite who was gassed at Auschwitz on August 9, 1942. She wrote: “The early Church gave outlet for the manifold activity of women…
Savita’s death misused by politicians and media
Dear Editor, The tragic death of Savita Halappanavar in Galway Hospital in 2012 was massively misused by politicians and the media who were more concerned with using her death to force abortion legislation into Ireland, rather than find out the truth about why she died. Now, almost two years later and after a lengthy investigation,…
Church needs to reform the seminaries globally
The priesthood is too important to leave frozen in time