Claim that NI schools are divisive rejected
Month: October 2016
Bible becomes available as digital download
Digital technology has caught up with a decades-long Bible project to make a hardcopy version of the work downloadable to mobile phones. According to researchers at the University of Navarra in Spain, a version of the Bible in Spanish, complete with commentary and explanations has taken 30 years to complete in the traditional bound volume…
Don’t waste countdown to family gathering, urges Archbishop Eamon
Catholics should consider how to share the Church’s teaching on the family ahead of the World Meeting of Families, Armagh’s Archbishop Eamon Martin has said. Speaking in St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, at the formal launch of preparations for the ninth world meeting, which will take place in Dublin in August 2018, the archbishop said the…
Recording the legacy of Irish missionaries
A new book on the legacy of Irish missionaries has been launched in time for Mission Month. The Legacy of Irish Missionaries Lives On contains numerous views and perspectives by leaders of Church and state, academics, historians, diplomats, media personnel, and international development specialists who have experienced the work of Irish missionaries, while also recording…
There is and there is not an ‘ideal family’
What did Archbishop Diarmuid Martin’s words on family mean, wonders David Quinn
Defending and debating faith-based schools
Dublin was the setting for a major conference on faith schools and their continuing relevance, organised by The Irish Catholic and St Mary’s University, Twickenham
Embedding Catholic education in the public square
Francis Campbell mounted a robust defence of faith schools
Where God is experienced as a reality
Nuala O’Loan shares her vision of the truly faith-based school
Countering the charges against faith schools
Ruth Kelly shared Britain’s experience of faith schools
It’s not what our schools do, it’s what we expect schools to be for our children
Dr Daire Keogh sums up the vision of a ‘Catholic’ school