We cannot be indifferent to “the cries of… the unborn who may be denied life”, said Bishop Brendan Leahy, adding that an Ireland “worth working for” is one where all life matters. The bishop’s statement came on the third anniversary of the referendum that removed protections for the unborn in Ireland, May 25. Bishop Leahy…
Over the past week or so, the BBC’s globally-famous interview with Princess Diana in 1995 has come back to haunt the corporation. Accusations – and evident proof – of underhand and deceptive methods of gaining access to Diana have emerged. Diana’s brother, Earl Spencer, has shown that the interviewer, Martin Bashir, used forged documents to…
The View Niamh Uí Bhriain Just three months into the supposedly progressive and compassionate abortion regime established by Simon Harris after the repeal of the Eighth Amendment, the unthinkable happened. A preborn baby boy was diagnosed with Trisomy 18 in the National Maternity Hospital. His parents said that they were not afraid to care for…
The Catholic Lawyers Corporation of Argentina filed a writ of amparo on May 18 contending that recent health regulations decreed during the Covid-19 pandemic “flagrantly violate” the free exercise of worship and religion. An increase of coronavirus cases in April, especially in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area, which accounts for 40% of the country’s population,…
Legendary gambler, trainer and man of faith Barney Curley who died on Sunday aged 81, has been honoured for his “unusual talents” and the “amazing” things he did for the poor. Charity Born and brought up in Irvinestown in Co. Fermanagh, Mr Curley’s dramatic battles with bookies are the stuff of legend, particularly the Yellow…
Well-known US musician Natalie Bergman has opened up about the influence of God in her most recent album which was written after a spiritual retreat to a Catholic monastery in New Mexico. While Ms Bergman is best known for her role in folk pop duo Wild Belle, alongside her brother Elliot, Mercy is the first…
Bishop-elect Stephen Chow Sau-yan completed his noviciate in Ireland, continuing a 90-year link between the nations, Ruadhán Jones learned Jesuit bishops are a rare thing, largely because the Jesuits vow not to seek such offices and will only take up a bishopric if the Pope asks them directly. As such, it wasn’t easy for Fr…
Some 400 people attended, Germany’s Third Ecumenical Convention in Frankfurt including German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, that concluded May 16, but Bishop Gerhard Feige of Magdeburg, head of the Catholic bishops’ commission on ecumenical relations, told the website katholisch.de that he could not see that the convention gave a particular boost to ecumenism. In terms of…
An “avalanche” of baptisms is due in the Traveller community of Dublin archdiocese due to the Baptism ban. Speaking to The Irish Catholic newspaper, Fr Paul O’Driscoll of the Parish of the Travelling People said the large number of coming baptisms is because “Traveller families tend to be larger than general”. As well as this,…
The Best Catholics in the World: The Irish, the Church and the End of a Special Relationship by Derek Scally (Sandycove/Penguin Ireland, €20) Derek Scally is a journalist with The Irish Times, based in Germany for the last 20 years. His perspective on the subject of Catholicism in Ireland is shown in the dedication of the book…
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