# catholic-church - Today’s News
# catholic-church - Friday 20 February, 2015
The decision has been welcomed by an organisation representing priests in Ireland, which said support is needed for those wrongly accused.
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# catholic-church - Friday 13 February, 2015
It is part of a move to diversify the patronage of schools across the country.
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# catholic-church - Tuesday 10 February, 2015
Marriage is still an important institution in this country, according to new research released today, but attitudes to it are changing.
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The Franciscan friars have apologised to survivors who were abused while under their care.
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# catholic-church - Wednesday 7 January, 2015
Dan Duane made the appeal to the Catholic Church’s highest judicial authority.
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# catholic-church - Monday 22 December, 2014
It was among 15 “ailments” the pontiff said top Church officials were suffering.
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# catholic-church - Friday 12 December, 2014
Mark Vincent Healy is taking a legal case against the Holy Ghost Fathers.
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# catholic-church - Thursday 30 October, 2014
Aodhán Ó’RÃordáin has promised to amend Section 37.
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# catholic-church - Tuesday 28 October, 2014
The pontiff said that the Big Bang theory is not inconsistent with Catholic teachings.
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# catholic-church - Sunday 19 October, 2014
Bishop John Fleming said the news came as a “shock” to him.
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# catholic-church - Monday 13 October, 2014
A document released by the Vatican today asks if it can welcome gay people “without compromising Catholic doctrine on the family and matrimony”.
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# catholic-church - Friday 10 October, 2014
To understand what happened, it is vital to hold inquests into the deaths of all those buried at the site of the former home.
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# catholic-church - Wednesday 8 October, 2014
Diarmuid Martin says it’s time for “a new language” between the Church and couples.
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# catholic-church - Sunday 5 October, 2014
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.
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# catholic-church - Friday 26 September, 2014
The bishop is the second the Pope has removed from office.
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The private lives of teachers and health workers should never be used against them, writes Senator Ivana Bacik.
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# catholic-church - Thursday 18 September, 2014
Martin Sixsmith travels to Ireland and America to reveal the moving stories of parents and children.
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# catholic-church - Monday 8 September, 2014
The Primate of All Ireland retired on age grounds when he turned 75.
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# catholic-church - Friday 22 August, 2014
Survivors have said that he is making excuses for “inexcusable behaviour”.
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# catholic-church - Thursday 21 August, 2014
“I threw myself to my knees…a hundred thousands thanks to God”
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# catholic-church - Friday 15 August, 2014
The offer of resignation, in line with Canon Law, must be approved by the Pope.
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# catholic-church - Thursday 14 August, 2014
Knock Knock, who’s there? 150,000 people…
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# catholic-church - Wednesday 23 July, 2014
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.
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# catholic-church - Thursday 17 July, 2014
There are serious concerns about the forthcoming mother-and-baby home inquiry; there is no international judge and a glaring lack of public debate.
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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.
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# catholic-church - Sunday 13 July, 2014
Francis also condemned child sex abuse as a “leprosy” in the Church.
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# catholic-church - Tuesday 8 July, 2014
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?
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# catholic-church - Monday 7 July, 2014
The Archbishop said that the Catholic Church must “do more” to help victims of abuse.
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# catholic-church - Saturday 5 July, 2014
In Dublin diocese there are now just two priests under the age of 40.
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# catholic-church - Sunday 29 June, 2014
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.
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# catholic-church - Saturday 14 June, 2014
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.
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# catholic-church - Friday 13 June, 2014
Victims of mother-and-baby homes as well as the Bethany Homes must finally have their voices heard.
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Good morning! Here are the nine stories you need to know.
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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.
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In the court’s view, it was not unreasonable for the Church to expect particular loyalty of religious education teachers.
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# catholic-church - Tuesday 10 June, 2014
They encouraged all those who ran these homes to gather and offer up any documents that might be of assistance.
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# catholic-church - Sunday 8 June, 2014
Diarmuid Martin said that any investigation needs to ensure that the culture that existed in past has been stamped out.
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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.
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# catholic-church - Saturday 7 June, 2014
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”.
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# catholic-church - Thursday 5 June, 2014
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.
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