Catholics must promote the common good over guns, a Maynooth professor has said, after five people were killed and eight injured in a shooting in bank in Kentucky in the US. “Excessive individualism” regarding rights to bear arms is “out of sync” with Catholic anthropology, Tobias Winright, a professor of moral theology at St Patrick’s…
Good Friday at 25 Despite the horrors of the conflict, the witness of countless heroic priests and other clerics reminds us of a Christian hope which stood against hatred, writes Prof. Francis Campbell Over 25 years ago, I heard a senior British official, who was quite closely involved with the Northern Ireland peace process, lament…
Deacon Greg Kandra The Sunday Gospel April 16, 2023 2nd Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday) Acts 2:42-47 Psalm 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24 I Peter 1:3-9 John 20:19-31 This Sunday gives us one of my favourite Gospel readings — a story of doubt that turns into belief, of stubbornness that gives way to assent and conversion.…
The Church must not be afraid of speaking up on controversial teachings in a bid to appear more palatable to secular culture, Bishop of Achonry Paul Demosey has said. Bishop Dempsey also insisted that the synodal process currently underway in the Church requires patience. It comes after The Irish Catholic revealed research which showed just…
We should not attempt to water down the Gospel message to make it more attractive today, rather we should live the message unapologetically, writes Bishop Paul Dempsey The results of a poll outlining the current support for our political parties was published recently. The sample of the population polled was 1,102 people (out of a…
The Sacrament of Penance is an opportunity rather than just an obligation, writes Russell Shaw When Dr Bernard Nathanson died of cancer in February 2011, the obituary writers dutifully recorded that he’d become a Catholic back in 1996. Some even recalled the reason he gave for taking that step. In the 1960s and 1970s, Dr…
In his passion, Jesus’ sufferings were unequaled. For the Son of God offered himself as a sacrifice for all. No one, not even the saintliest person, can take on the sins of all people in every time and place. Only God can, and did. It is this gift of faith, at the heart of our…
St Juliana of Mont Cornillon was born in 1193 at Retines near Liège in Belgium. Orphaned at an early age, she was educated by the Norbertine Canonesses Regular of Mont Cornillon. She made her profession in this order and eventually became superioress. The canonry seems to have been established on the model of a double monastery, with both…
A danger in any synodal pathway is that the process can be dominated by a vocal minority, writes Rev. Stephen Neill Like many of my colleagues I have been watching with some interest the evolution of the ‘synodal pathway’ in the Catholic Church in Ireland and indeed worldwide. It was thus disappointing to see reported…
Ireland has already embraced eugenics, a new paper from the Iona Institute says, warning that we could be facing an “Ireland without Down Syndrome”. The paper comes after the former Master of the Rotunda revealed that 90% of patients at the hospital opt for abortion once they are told the baby they are expecting has…