Two Irish priests and a parish administrator have started a trans-Atlantic church-based network which aims to attract American industry to Ireland. Frs Sean Heaney and Shane Crombie, with Tom Whelan, from Tullamore, have been writing to parishes in the United States. Fr Crombie said the Church is a ready-made network. The trio’s motivation is not Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Ireland’
Audits show Irish orders slow to move on child safety
Tuesday, February 17th, 2015
Audits have shown that several religious congregations in Ireland have been tardy in implementing the Church’s child protection guidelines. The National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland published reviews on the implementation of policies in 16 religious congregations. Only two orders – the Congregation of the Sacred Heart and the Dominican Read more
Vote looming: Irish bishops warn against same-sex marriage
Tuesday, December 9th, 2014Irish bishops are warning Catholics in Ireland that presenting same sex-partnerships as equivalent to marriage would be akin to saying that the union of man and woman is no longer the foundation of society. In a pastoral statement aimed at presenting the Church’s teaching on marriage ahead of a vote on same-sex marriage due to Read more
Ireland church records go online
Friday, December 5th, 2014Tracing your Irish roots just got a whole lot easier as the National Library of Ireland is to give free online access to its Catholic Church records collection online, from summer 2015. This will enable millions of people around the world to trace their roots in Ireland. Genealogy expert John Grenham wrote in The Irish Read more
Irish Church cited in IRA abuse cover-up
Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
The Irish Catholic Church’s record on sex abuse has been cited in a sex scandal involving the Irish Republican Army. Irish political party Sinn Fein has been accused of covering up for IRA sex abusers by moving them from Northern Ireland to the Irish republic. Ireland’s Parliament recently debated the claims of Belfast woman Mairia Read more
Ireland re-opens Holy See embassy after three year gap
Friday, November 14th, 2014Pope Francis has received Ireland’s new ambassador to the Holy See, ending a three year hiatus in which the ambassador was based in Dublin. In 2011, the Irish government closed its Vatican embassy after Prime Minister Enda Kenny accused the Holy See of deliberately thwarting a probe into sex abuse allegations. The Vatican had strongly Read more
Expert attacks Irish hierarchy’s attitude to child abuse
Tuesday, October 28th, 2014The former head of the Church body set up to protect children in Ireland has attacked the Irish bishops’ efforts in this area. Ian Elliott has accused the bishops of “minimal responses and empty gestures” when dealing with clerical abuse. Mr Elliott headed the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland Read more
Ian Paisley
Friday, September 19th, 2014
Ian Paisley was probably the most fiery, uncompromising and bellicose Ulster politician throughout the Troubles. But late in life, one of the most turbulent figures in Northern Ireland politics throughout the 20th century underwent a transformation. The man who constantly declared “No surrender” to Republican views, suddenly agreed to share power in a Northern Ireland Read more
New Ireland primate wants laity to renew Church
Tuesday, September 16th, 2014
The new Primate of All Ireland wants to see a humble renewal of the Irish Church led from the bottom up by the laity. Archbishop Eamon Martin became Archbishop of Armagh and Ireland’s primate following Pope Francis’s acceptance of the resignation of Cardinal Sean Brady, who had turned 75. According to The Tablet, during an Read more
Pope Francis accepts Ireland primate’s resignation
Friday, September 12th, 2014
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Sean Brady, the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland. Cardinal Brady had turned 75 in August and according to Church law, bishops are asked to submit their resignations to the Pope at that stage. The Pope can either accept or reject the resignation. Cardinal Brady, Read more