Graphic content of Christian persecution, reader discretion is advised Decapitation, mutilated bodies and gunfire haunt a Nigerian priest now based in Ireland, but adoration always helps, Chai Brady hears Reports of the tens of thousands of Christians killed in Nigeria by Islamist extremists over the last decade do not reflect the true horror faced by…
Thousands took to the streets in Dublin to protest against the “extreme” recommendations in the review of Ireland’s abortion law on Monday, May 1. The marchers walked from St Stephen’s Green to Leinster House, where speakers including Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín TD, Dr Kirsten Fuller and Wendy Grace, criticised the review, which was released last…
Parents will have to fight back if gender ideology is imposed on schools, writes David Quinn A major review into how Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) is taught in the country’s schools has been underway for some time now with demands that it be brought ‘up to date’. This is often code for ditching from…
The pain of the North’s past must be processed through the lens of truth and not in manner politically expedient for the strong, Bishop of Derry Donal McKeown has said. To build a future for people, the North needs an “honest story about the past with its highs and lows”, said Bishop McKeown at a…
The Vatican announced on April 26 that there will be laypeople participating as voting members in the Synod on Synodality’s October assembly, a break with past custom, which allowed laypeople to participate without the right to vote. Pope Francis will also approve every member in advance. The general assembly of the Synod on Synodality will…
Inside the rite for Christian Baptism there’s a little ritual that is at once both touching and unrealistic. At one point in the baptismal rite the child is clothed in a white garment symbolising innocence and purity. The priest or minister officiating says these words: “Receive this baptismal garment and bring it unstained to the…
When Elizabeth II passed away at Balmoral, her beloved Scottish home, in September last, my first thought on her son’s coming Coronation, was “What are they going to do about the Stone of Scone?” This was the ancient inauguration stone of the Scottish nation. Having been removed from the royal site at the Moot Hill…
Madagali: An account of a parish surrounded by terrorists, Chai Brady writes For Fr Innocent Sunu, who was the parish priest of embattled Madagali parish in the Diocese of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria, the attack by the terrorist group Boko Haram on the evening of February 19, 2020 will stay with him more than the…
Dear Editor, It is wonderful to have people like Niamh Uí Bhriain call pro-abortion politicians out for their hypocrisy and undemocratic agendas [The Irish Catholic – April 27, 2022]. Some 400,000 people voted ‘No’ in the 2018 abortion referendum because they believed an unborn child deserves the right to life. That figure would have been…
Somebody once described art as “Life with the dull bits cut out”. But sometimes the dull bits can be just as artistic – or more so. That’s the case with Lakelands (15), a beautifully modulated evocation of rural life in Cavan, what Eamon Dunphy likes to refer to as ‘unofficial Ireland’. It’s a part of…
Chai Brady
Ruadhán Jones
David Quinn
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