# catholicism - Tuesday 21 May, 2013
Video from an event last Friday shows the pontiff laying his hands on a young man who convulses and then slumps over.
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# catholicism - Friday 3 May, 2013
Ireland’s Catholic bishops say the proposed abortion bill marks a “dramatic and morally unacceptable change” in Irish law.
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# catholicism - Thursday 25 April, 2013
Mercado magazine invites viewers to visualise Merkel as the Greeks, Spanish and Germans might see her.
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# catholicism - Tuesday 23 April, 2013
Emily Mulcahy and Edmond Roche (both 12) were chosen from the diocese of Cloyne to be confirmed by the Pope in St Peter’s Square.
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# catholicism - Monday 22 April, 2013
This question is not born out of contempt, says TheJournal.ie columnist, but is out of genuine bewilderment when you consider the status of women in Catholic doctrine.
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# catholicism - Friday 29 March, 2013
The pope has attended the Passion of Christ in St Peter’s Basilica ahead of a torch-lit procession at the Colosseum later tonight.
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# catholicism - Thursday 28 March, 2013
SuperValu says its supermarkets will sell about €1 million in fish this week – more than double the usual – ahead of Good Friday.
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Under Catholic tradition, many people abstain from alcohol and eating meat on Good Friday. Will you be among them?
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# catholicism - Saturday 9 March, 2013
In an interview aired last night, two anonymous nuns defended the Magdalene laundries and said religious orders had no need to apologise.
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# catholicism - Monday 4 March, 2013
Cardinal Keith O’Brien, who resigned as Britain’s most senior Catholic cleric last week, has now admitted the allegations that were made against them having initially denied them.
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# catholicism - Saturday 23 February, 2013
Speaking ahead of his resignation next week, Pope Benedict XVI said that God’s beauty was “constantly contradicted by the evil of this world, by suffering and by corruption.”
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# catholicism - Friday 15 February, 2013
Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, the pope’s personal secretary, will keep his old job but will also oversee the new pope’s household.
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# catholicism - Tuesday 12 February, 2013
The Vatican said the operation had nothing to do with the Pope’s decision to resign.
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# catholicism - Friday 8 February, 2013
Eamon Gilmore said the government is eager to listen to the women about their needs and about what its response to the report should be.
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# catholicism - Wednesday 6 February, 2013
Magdalene Survivors Together said they were left “devastated” after the Taoiseach stopped short of apologising to them on behalf of the State.
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# catholicism - Tuesday 5 February, 2013
The report published today includes a section devoted to survivors’ first-hand accounts of life in a Laundry.
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# catholicism - Sunday 20 January, 2013
Fr Tony Flannery has come under pressure from the Vatican to recant his views on women becoming priests and the system of selecting bishops being overhauled.
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# catholicism - Saturday 22 December, 2012
Breaking via The Mire wire: Government apologises to Angela Merkel for Mayan apocalypse insult and the IMF’s seasonal message of good will to all. No, really.
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# catholicism - Friday 21 December, 2012
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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# catholicism - Sunday 16 December, 2012
Demonstrators held placards condemning homophobia after Pope Benedict said same-sex unions “destabilise marriage”.
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# catholicism - Saturday 15 December, 2012
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines allege the Reproductive Health Bill promotes pre-marital sex and threatens the “moral fibre” of the country.
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# catholicism - Tuesday 11 December, 2012
Northern Irish figures show for the first time that the question of national identity cannot be directly related to religion.
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# catholicism - Sunday 9 December, 2012
Some believe the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, an ancient Polish icon of the Virgin Mary, can work miracles.
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# catholicism - Friday 7 December, 2012
A new study says the clergy has been accused of 576 cases of sexual assault between 2000 and 2010.
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# catholicism - Sunday 18 November, 2012
Ding ding ding! It’s round one of Pope Benedict XVI versus the Mayan prophets of doom.
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# catholicism - Wednesday 14 November, 2012
Demonstrators sat on the ground during a moment of silence, while speakers argued for legislation on abortion.
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Savita Praveen Halappanavar died from septicaemia following a miscarriage which lasted almost three days. She repeatedly asked for the foetus to be removed but her requests were turned down.
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# catholicism - Tuesday 6 November, 2012
The Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference said the amendment offers a ‘reasonable and balanced approach’ to children’s rights.
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# catholicism - Sunday 4 November, 2012
Visitations of the Virgin Mary to a teenage boy and ‘bleeding’ statues in Templemore, Co Tipperary seized the country – even causing Michael Collins to get involved in the mysterious case.
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# catholicism - Wednesday 24 October, 2012
Pope Benedict XVI today announced the unexpected appointment of six cardinals from outside Europe.
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# catholicism - Saturday 20 October, 2012
About 50 Irish pilgrims are thought to be among 500 faithful who are being evacuated from hotels.
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# catholicism - Monday 15 October, 2012
A synod of bishops meeting in Rome was shown a YouTube ‘Muslim Demographics’ video which predicts an Islamic continent by 2050.
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# catholicism - Thursday 11 October, 2012
Bishop of Down and Connor Noel Treanor said the clinic undermines the dignity of human life in society.
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# catholicism - Monday 8 October, 2012
Here are the things we learned, shared and loved today.
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It had been reported that Bishop John Kirby had knowledge that a priest abused children after he was moved to a new parish following abuse allegations.
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# catholicism - Monday 1 October, 2012
The new policy document is geared at making the First Communion a more parish-oriented – and cheaper – event.
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# catholicism - Friday 7 September, 2012
Lisa McInerney asks why, if a senior member of the Catholic Church thought paedophilia was ‘crossing the line in friendship’, does the same Church think it can guide people on how to love and who to marry?
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# catholicism - Tuesday 4 September, 2012
The four Christians all believe they were sacked because of their religious beliefs, but lost employment tribunals.
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# catholicism - Tuesday 28 August, 2012
Everyone is free to practice their religion – but that shouldn’t have anything to do with how we run the country, argue Nathan Wheeler and Sean Cassidy.
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