Dr Anthony Fauci told the World Health Organization’s (WHO) executive board January 21 that “in the coming days”, President Joe Biden will revoke the so-called “Mexico City policy”, which blocks US funding of foreign nongovernmental organisations that perform and promote abortion as a form of family planning. Women’s health The action will be part of…
The View Who America’s leader is matters to people around the world. With President Joe Biden there is now a Christian gentleman in the White House, whose ambition after all the turmoil of recent times will be to do what is right, working as much as possible with others at home and abroad. If he…
The pandemic has “stymied” human trafficking efforts due to heightened restrictions on travel, according to an Irish missionary priest who heads a charity tackling the issue in Vietnam. Human trafficking CEO of Dasatt, Franciscan Fr Sean Cassin, told The Irish Catholic that the recent convictions of several Irish people in relation to human trafficking from…
At least 750 people are reported dead after an attack on an Oriental Orthodox church in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, according to a European watch-group. Lost ark On January 9, the Europe External Programme with Africa reported that the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Axum, about 80 miles west of Adigrat, had been…
‘Avalanche’ of homelessness feared after pandemic if Government fail to protect vulnerable, writes Chai Brady Homelessness, which is now a crisis within a crisis due to the pandemic, was brought to the fore of public conscience once again when RTÉ highlighted the story of a man who was repeatedly refused a hostel bed because he…
At the turn of the year The Irish Catholic, along with other long-established national newspapers, has customarily devoted space to items from the year end release of state documents from 30 years ago by our National Archives in Bishop Street, Dublin. This usually ran to a mini-supplement of six pages. But this year, because of the…
Bishop Kevin Doran of Elphin Diocese likened tackling the pandemic to the “Battle of Britain” and questioned if Irish pharmaceutical companies could make use of production facilities to stimulate vaccine production. Bishop Doran said that ”every expert here is saying that all of this depends on the availability of supply” and that production could be…
It would be a failure of moral witness if the Church did not point to policies at odds with the Catholic Faith, writes David Quinn On the morning of his inauguration as president of the United States, Joe Biden attended Mass. He carries a set of rosary beads on him that belonged to his late…
An association of Spanish education advocates will appeal to the European Union to prevent Spain’s socialist government from implementing an education law that will restrict the exercise of the rights of parents in deciding their children’s education. The law, approved by the Spanish parliament December 23, 2020 prevents parents from choosing religious schools for their…
Catholics in public life, saints and sainthood candidates, figures from US history, military heroes, leaders in science, politicians and athletes were included in a list of dozens of figures President Donald Trump said will be in a new National Garden of American Heroes he created by executive order January 18. The garden “will be built…
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