Australia’s prime minister has said that the Sri Lankan militant group blamed for the Easter bombings that killed at least 250 people had support from the Islamic State group, a day after Sri Lankan officials said they were still evaluating foreign ties. Prime Minister Scott Morrison told reporters last Friday that he could confirm links…
A new Vatican department focused on evangelisation will succeed if it can channel the vision Pope Francis mapped out at the start of his papacy, Raphoe’s Bishop Alan McGuckian has said. Speaking to The Irish Catholic about plans for a Vatican ‘super-dicastery’ Bishop McGuckian said he hoped that the plan will point to real leadership…
Mothers and fathers are different and we shouldn’t be afraid to say so, writes David Quinn This is a very strange and contradictory Government. On the one hand it is preparing a new law that will allow a couple not to record themselves on a birth certificate as the mother and father of their…
Simon Harris has halted funds needed to preserve women’s lives in order to pay for abortion, writes Niamh Uí Bhriain Last year, we were repeatedly told that Irish women would be safer in pregnancy if the Eighth Amendment was repealed. In fact, when opinion polls showed support for repeal was slipping, The Irish Times rushed…
The Archdiocese of Baltimore has published an additional 23 names of priests who had been accused of child sexual abuse after they were deceased. All of the allegations have been previously reported to law enforcement, in most cases more than a decade ago. Released on April 24, the 23 additional names join 103 other clergy…
A well-known psychiatrist has said she is “surprised” at survey results which found more Irish people disagree that religion does more harm than good, despite hostility in mainstream media. Prof. Patricia Casey said there seems to be “anti-religious” sentiment among the majority of journalists and politicians. These are “out of touch” with a large proportion…
Questions of Faith It’s almost taken as a given today that the origins of humankind can be explained through the theory of evolution: the process by which different kinds of living organisms are believed to have developed from earlier forms. There’s a common assumption today that Catholics don’t believe in evolution, and instead adopt a…
The priest who spoke at the ecumenical service of murdered journalist Lyra McKee has said there has been no progress in many areas since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement. Fr Martin Magill, who gave a eulogy in Belfast’s St Anne’s Cathedral in memory of the 29-year-old woman killed by a dissident republican group,…
Letter from Rome Inés San Martín A new ‘super dicastery’ on evangelisation might be one of the most significant reforms of the governing structures of the Vatican, according to a new report. Spanish journalist Dario Menor Torres, writing for the weekly Vida Nueva, reveals several elements of the new Vatican constitution that has been in development…
While recent policy changes in the US have left the people of Cuba facing increasing uncertainty, the message of the Catholic Church is always that security is ultimately found in Christ, said a priest from the island nation. “This is the task of the Church: to say that salvation is found only is Jesus, who…
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