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Almost 400 Derry diocese students receive JPII Awards

Almost 400 young people from Derry diocese received the Pope John Paul II Award at a ceremony in St Eugene’s Cathedral on February 7. The guest speaker, Alexander McLean alongside Bishop Donal McKeown, patron of the Award, presented the Award to 381 young people from all over the diocese of Derry and beyond. Three people…

Schools shouldn’t welcome wellbeing programmes that deny Catholic beliefs – theologian

There is no place for wellbeing programmes that “deny” the Catholic Church’s unique understanding of humanity in Catholic schools, a major international conference attended by Ireland’s leading educators has heard. Speaking at the Global Researchers Advancing Catholic Education (GRACE) conference at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Perth last week, Irish theologian Prof. Eamonn…