by Oisin Walsh | Sep 22, 2017 | Day for Life, Features, Headlines
Day for Life is celebrated annually by the Catholic Church in Ireland, Scotland and England and Wales. It is a day dedicated to celebrating and upholding the dignity of human life from conception to natural death. This year’s Day for Life will be...
by Oisin Walsh | Sep 5, 2017 | Features
Life is precious Amidst all the rich variety of life on earth, human life is cause for special wonder. We alone can contemplate the beauty around us. We alone can create art and music and literature to express this beauty. We alone can love one another. Each human...
by Oisin Walsh | Aug 31, 2017 | Features, Headlines
At the invitation of An Taoiseach, Mr Leo Varadkar TD, a delegation representing bishops and officials from the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference held a two-hour bilateral meeting today with ministers in Government Buildings, Dublin. This was the first such...
by Oisin Walsh | Aug 31, 2017 | News archive 2017
In response to representations from Coping International, the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference has published the following: Principles of responsibility regarding priests who father children while in ministry Upon ordination, priests promise to live a...
by Oisin Walsh | Aug 31, 2017 | Features, Headlines
The third World Day of Prayer for the Care of All Creation takes place on Friday 1 September 2017. Many local Church communities around the world also are preparing to mark Creation Time, which also begins on 1 September and continues until 4 October, the...
