EXCLUSIVE Garry O’Sullivan Leading Irish newspapers The Irish Times, The Irish Examiner will tomorrow (Saturday) issue formal printed apologies to one of the two young seminarians falsely accused last year in a fake seminarian sex scandal story emanating from the Irish College in Rome. Large damages are also believed to be part of the…
Ireland’s abortion regime makes visible pro-life campaigning all the more vital, writes Niamh Uí Bhriain Voter regret in regard to the abortion referendum is real and it is growing. Every month seems to bring a new and more shocking revelation about Simon Harris’s new abortion regime, and in response come increasing numbers of people…
The View Martin Mansergh Pope Francis’ approval of the Italian bishops’ decision to render more precise the passage in the Lord’s Prayer in Italian that is the equivalent of, but perhaps not precisely the same as ‘lead us not into temptation’ was news here, in the sense that it came as a surprise to most…
Only 74% of Irish trust medical vaccines Colm Fitzpatrick and Chai Brady Parents are morally obliged to vaccinate their children if it poses a serious risk to their health, priests and theologians have said. With over 20 confirmed measles cases in the Dublin area since the beginning of the year, and other fringe outbreaks…
Imagine a scenario in which it came to be known that cars with defective seat belts had been allowed on to the market. Now imagine that this information on the increased risk of passenger fatalities was known to government and all the major political parties prior to the sale of the cars, but they failed…
Claims that Ireland was repressed in the 1980s are absurd, writes David Quinn ‘Why were we so hateful?’, the editorial in the Irish Examiner asked of Irish people living in the 1980s. A feature last weekend in the Irish Independent described the same decade as “traumatising” for women. The 1980s is in the spotlight…
The Irish Catholic has scooped a major international religious journalism prize for the second year running. The ‘Welcome, Pope Francis’ special issue won first place in the ‘Best special supplement – one-time special issue’ category of the Catholic Press Awards, held this year in St Petersburg, Florida. The award to the staff of The Irish…
Parents are morally obliged to vaccinate their children, writes Colm Fitzpatrick With the recent spate of measles outbreaks across Ireland, questions have been raised about what role both parents and government play in preventing the spread of infectious illnesses. Vaccinations, of course, seem to be the obvious solution as they provide immunity to the…
A prayer service to comfort families will be held in Leixlip, Co. Kildare this Sunday in the wake of the tragic murder of Ana Kriegel (14, pictured). Confey parish is organising the service “for people to come to pray for families who are hurting and grieving and for the entire parish community”, according to Administrator…
A new Vatican document invites important questions about dialogue and understanding, writes Kevin O’Higgins SJ This month, the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education issued a document, ‘Male and Female He Created Them: Towards a Path of Dialogue On the Question of Gender Theory in Education’. While the focus is on gender theory in relation…
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