Friday 30 January, 2015
Dan Duane made the appeal to the Catholic Church’s highest judicial authority.
It was among 15 “ailments” the pontiff said top Church officials were suffering.
Mark Vincent Healy is taking a legal case against the Holy Ghost Fathers.
Aodhán Ó’RÃordáin has promised to amend Section 37.
The pontiff said that the Big Bang theory is not inconsistent with Catholic teachings.
Bishop John Fleming said the news came as a “shock” to him.
A document released by the Vatican today asks if it can welcome gay people “without compromising Catholic doctrine on the family and matrimony”.
To understand what happened, it is vital to hold inquests into the deaths of all those buried at the site of the former home.
Diarmuid Martin says it’s time for “a new language” between the Church and couples.
Pope Francis suggested the Catholic Church must address the present gulf between what it currently says on these issues and what tens of millions of believers actually do.
The bishop is the second the Pope has removed from office.
The private lives of teachers and health workers should never be used against them, writes Senator Ivana Bacik.
Martin Sixsmith travels to Ireland and America to reveal the moving stories of parents and children.
The Primate of All Ireland retired on age grounds when he turned 75.
Survivors have said that he is making excuses for “inexcusable behaviour”.
“I threw myself to my knees…a hundred thousands thanks to God”
The offer of resignation, in line with Canon Law, must be approved by the Pope.
Knock Knock, who’s there? 150,000 people…
Twice a day, we should all stop and listen to those bells. Let them serve as a reminder of what happens when we outsource our thinking to anyone else.
There are serious concerns about the forthcoming mother-and-baby home inquiry; there is no international judge and a glaring lack of public debate.
It was such an important and historic moment for Irish survivors, where the Pope was left in no doubt about the human and spiritual cost that clerical child sexual abuse causes.
Francis also condemned child sex abuse as a “leprosy” in the Church.
I shudder to imagine what those mothers and their beautiful babies went through. But we need to ask the difficult question: is this the correct use of funds that children living today so badly need?
The Archbishop said that the Catholic Church must “do more” to help victims of abuse.
In Dublin diocese there are now just two priests under the age of 40.
The history of Ireland’s legal adoption battle is fraught with examples of church-state collusion, even after 1952 when legislation for it was finally enacted in Ireland.
Interestingly, in all the coverage about mother-and-baby homes over the past few weeks, the role of the fathers hasn’t been addressed to any extent.
Victims of mother-and-baby homes as well as the Bethany Homes must finally have their voices heard.
Good morning! Here are the nine stories you need to know.
History will judge us every bit as harshly as we are now judging the society which condemned women and children to mother-and-baby homes.
In the court’s view, it was not unreasonable for the Church to expect particular loyalty of religious education teachers.
They encouraged all those who ran these homes to gather and offer up any documents that might be of assistance.
Diarmuid Martin said that any investigation needs to ensure that the culture that existed in past has been stamped out.
These are the unpalatable facts: we are living at a time of growing homelessness and food poverty, and we allow vulnerable children to socially excluded, neglected and ignored.
For Irish people who lived through these times to claim no knowledge of what went on in places like Tuam is disingenuous – and smacks of “I was only following orders”.
The misogynistic meddling of the Catholic church in affairs of this young state was detrimental to the blossoming of a whole, enlightened and fulfilled society – and nobody bore the brunt of that more than vulnerable women and their babies.
The issue has come to light as a result of research which found death records for 796 infants in an unmarked grave beside a children’s home.
Fr Seamus McEntee, who is 48 ,was ordained by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin today.
The bodies of 800 “illegitimate” children, ranging in age from nine years to two days, have been uncovered in Tuam. But do people care any more now than they did then?
If reports were to be believed, the Ouija Board rivalled the Game Boy in the popularity stakes with young people in Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s.
WE IRISH PEOPLE love the weather. We love talking about, tweeting about it and complaining about it.
Nothing on the weather front divides opinion quite like snow. When the white stuff starts falling Irish people reacted with cheers or groans, visions of snow days and shovelling out cars competing.
What do you think? Is a winter wonderland or a snowy hell?
We’re asking: Do you like snow?
Poll Results:
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Sunny to partly cloudy
Max: 6 °C
Min: 2 °C
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