Incumbent US President Joe Biden, a Catholic, is battling a high unfavorability rating among his fellow Catholics, according to survey data released by the Pew Research Center. According to the data, neither Biden nor his Republican rival, former president Donald Trump, are viewed favourably by a majority of Catholics surveyed, but Biden is the more…
Deputy Leader of Aontú Gemma Brolly has criticised the recently passed Alliance Party motion which seeks to enforce “compulsory, standardised, inclusive, high-quality, evidence-based and age appropriate” RSE teaching into classrooms. Ms Brolly has described some of the language used in the motion as “misleading”. The motion was passed on Monday by a margin of 49…
Three really important elections are set to take place in the coming months – the local and European elections in early June, and a General Election sometime this year or early next year, at the latest. All three elections will determine who represents us for the next five years. It’s why from a pro-life standpoint…
Belgium’s highest court ruled late last night that a conference upholding conservative values in the public square could go ahead in the country’s capital after a Brussels district mayor had ordered police to shut it down yesterday. Emir Kir issued the order to halt the National Conservatism conference that was scheduled to take place April…
The Christian blessing is more than a nice gesture, writes Bert Ghezzi I used to make the sign of the cross casually as a nice gesture for beginning and ending my prayers. More than a decade ago, probably nudged by the Holy Spirit, I began to take it more seriously. I began to sign…
It is often said that, in the West at least, this is an age which does not value religion. But one class of people certainly do: the leading auctioneers of the world, in Europe and North America, who are quite prepared to sell off civilisation’s most important relics for whatever they can get. At…
War in Gaza has become a “way of life”, according to a Franciscan priest in the Holy Land. On Tuesday, Israel sent tanks to parts of the northern Gaza Strip, while warplanes conducted strikes on Rafah in the south of the territory, killing and wounding several people, according two local officials. The Israeli offensive in…
The codex now for sale was once a part of the Bodmer Hoard, some of the items of which are now in the Chester Beatty library in Dublin. A visit to the Chester Beatty Library in the precincts of Dublin Castle will reveal not only one of Ireland’s finest museums, but also a…
Welcoming the arrival of the relics of two Polish martyrs to Thurles, Co. Tipperary, the Archbishop of Cashel and Emly has said there are many “courageous” priests who place their lives at risk for Christ and the relics are a reminder of Christians suffering for the Faith. The relics of Conventional Franciscans, Zbigniew Strzałkowski OFM…
Why do we no longer get along with each other? Why is there such bitter polarisation inside of our countries, our neighborhoods, our churches, and even in our families? Why do we feel so unsafe in many of our conversations where we are perpetually on guard so as not to step on some political, social,…
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