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The voices of doctors opposed to euthanasia and assisted suicide must be heard

Siobhan O'Shaughnessy  In a recent answer to a parliamentary question asked by Carol Nolan TD, the Ministers for Justice and...

Photo of Blessed Carlo Acutis: 15-year-old on his way to Sainthood

Blessed Carlo Acutis was beatified, in October, in the Italian town of Assisi. Pope Francis recalled the 15-year-old Italian teenager...

Vatican: “Priests cannot absolve”

In ‘Samaritanus Bonus: On the Care of Persons in the Critical and Terminal Phases of Life’, a recently released...

ALIVE! Photo of the Month: Pro-life Witness

Husband and wife team Donal and Doreen Nunan have been organising pro-life witnessing outside Cork University Hospital since August 2019, highlighting...

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The Irish abortion regime: illogical, damaging, and the darling of the mainstream media

In January 2019, at the very beginning of the...
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With the whole country now at level 5 restrictions...

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The voices of doctors opposed to euthanasia and assisted suicide must be heard

Siobhan O'Shaughnessy  In a recent answer to a parliamentary question...
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ALIVE! Photo of the Month: Pro-life Witness

Husband and wife team Donal and Doreen Nunan have...

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Vatican: “Priests cannot absolve”

In ‘Samaritanus Bonus: On the Care of Persons in...
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The battle over relationship education heats up

The British government has issued new common-sense guidelines on...

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The Youth Forum

Doing God’s work and discouragement

I had a personal experience recently where I was...
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Try being a young Catholic

I read the Youth Forum by Mary Scott Boras...

Q & A With Fr Mike

Questions & Answers with Fr Mike

Q: I can’t focus at Mass. I try, but my mind wanders. Why is this?

A: This is a great question, and it is something that I imagine every person who has ever been...

Lives of the Saints

Lives of the Saints

DOROTHY DAY 43

A Spiritual Journey Among the Poor Dorothy Day’s life and...
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Forgotten Fatherhood

About a year ago, I remember tuning into an RTE programme about assisted reproduction...
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Millennial Motherhood

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Recognising the Six Stages of Evil

In mid-July Fr Seán Mulligan of Carrickmacross gave what...

A wake-up call to complacent Christians

In his new book, Church of Cowards, Matt Walsh...

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Time without a Face

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In 1956 C. S. Lewis published a novel entitled ‘Till we have Faces’. Based...

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For to us a child is born

We have just heard in the Gospel the message given by the angels to the shepherds during that Holy Night, a message which the Church now proclaims to us:...

The Narrative Begins

Genesis, Part 1 The books from Genesis to 2 Kings are sometimes called “Narrative Books.” They narrate the story of God’s relationship with the world from the very beginning until...

Faith & Reason

Dumbag Writes...

Men, men, men, men, manly men. No more. (to the theme-tune of Two and a Half Men)

Oh Smithers, The world has drank our bitter poison. Men, scum of the earth they...

Nothing better than boiling frogs

Boiled frogs is what they are Smithers, Isn’t it wonderful watching society fall apart at...

Everybody wants to be somebody else

Smithers, The great problem with society these days is that everybody wants to be somebody...

Hate crimes and public order bills? Proper order!

Dear Smithers, We’ve had another successful week at the office! Whilst the rest of the...
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