An expert in Catholic education has hit back at “lazy” and “dangerous” myths perpetuated against Catholic education. Referencing Catholic education as ‘segregated’ or ‘an apartheid schooling system’ reinforces division and is “harmful to both the individual and social cohesion”, school chaplain and education expert Dr Aidan Donaldson has said. These arguments are “lazy and prejudicial”,…
We must wait patiently for a pro-life and pro-family social revolution, writes David Quinn Even if you do not have a believing bone in your body, are totally sceptical of all religious claims and absolutely dismiss the possibility of miracles, it is still the case that something incredible happened over the first Easter period…
Acclaimed German-Irish sculptor Imogen Stuart, who produced a sculpture of Pope John Paul II, located in St Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth, and the altar and baptismal font of the Honan Chapel on the grounds of University College Cork, died last Monday at age 96. Born in Berlin, Ms Stuart was the daughter of art critic…
After the Year of Mercy, it’s time to pray, writes Elizabeth Scalia St Philip Neri once had a penitent confess to indulging in gossip. He advised the contrite soul to bring him a chicken, and to pluck its feathers as he walked the streets of Rome. When the man showed up with the chicken,…
Irish Ambassador to the Holy See Frances Collins has praised what she said is a strong relationship between Ireland and the Holy See despite historic tensions with the Catholic Church, saying they share several key foreign policy and humanitarian priorities. In an interview with Crux, Ms Collins addressed a number of topical issues including…
A woman in Limerick nearly died from an ectopic pregnancy three days after having a medical abortion, a paper in the Irish Medical Journal shows. As no ultrasound was conducted, a situation developed in which the 24-year-old woman in question had a medical termination, before being treated in hospital three days later for an ectopic…
Easter being the most important feast day in the Christian calendar has always attracted artists. Each incident of Holy Week from the Last Supper, the arrest in the garden, the trial before Pontius Pilate, the denials by Peter, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection, the women at the empty tomb: each of these has been the…
Dr Toni Pyke Gerard Gallagher On Saturday March 2, a coalition of national and local organisations that form ‘Le Chéile’, organised a ‘Stand Together’ march in Dublin city centre. This was their second such march, seeking solidarity, unity and acceptance of diversity in an increasingly divided Ireland. The march that Saturday wasn’t about any one…
We speak of that section in the Gospels which narrates Jesus’ life from the Last Supper until his death and burial, as chronicling his ‘Passion’. On Good Friday, the lector begins the Gospel with the words: “The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ According to John”. Why do we call Jesus’ suffering just before…
When Christians gathered in Jerusalem to remember Jesus’ entry into the city, it was one of a few joyful moments in the Holy Land, “crushed by so much hatred” in the months following the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel. “Despite the war and everything going on around us this year, we have once again…
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