PRESS RELEASE7 October 2010 Statement by the Catholic Bishops of Northern Ireland on the ‘First All-Ireland Conference on Abortion and Clinical Practice’ organised jointly by the Family Planning Association in Britain and Ireland The Slieve Donard Hotel, Newcastle,...
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Day for Life 2010: ‘ The meaning of Christian Death’
'Day for Life' Pastoral Letter on the meaning of Christian death (available in English, Irish and Polish languages) 3 October 2010 | Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference Day for Life 2010 'Lord, for your faithful people, life is changed, not ended' Download English...
Day for Life 2010 on the meaning of Christian death and care for those who are dying
PRESS RELEASE 9 September 2010 Day for Life 2010 on the meaning of Christian death and care for those who are dying Special feature on www.catholicbishops.ie Day for Life Mass to be broadcast by RTÉ 1 from Ballina, Co Mayo The Catholic Church in Ireland will celebrate...
Linacre Centre for Healthcare Ethics conference on ‘Fertility, Infertility and Gender’
PRESS RELEASE 22 June 2010 Linacre Centre for Healthcare Ethics conference on ‘Fertility, Infertility and Gender’ An international group of around 100 delegates met in St Patrick College, Maynooth, on 16 to 18 June, for a conference run by the Linacre Centre for...
Feature 12 December 2008 | Publication of ‘Dignitas Personae’
Video discussion and text of Dignitas Personae, Instruction on Certain Bioethical Questions, published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Dignitas Personae Instruction on Certain Bioethical Questions The issues addressed in the document Dignitas...
Launch of ‘Dignitas Personae, Instruction on Certain Bioethical Questions’
PRESS RELEASE 12 December 2008 Launch of 'Dignitas Personae, Instruction on Certain Bioethical Questions' Today in Rome the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith publishes Dignitas Personae, Instruction on Certain Bioethical Questions. The launch takes place at...
Dignitas Personae
Instruction on Certain Bioethical Questions 12 December 2008 | Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Dignitas Personae, Instruction on Certain Bioethical Questions Text available to download here in pdf format (~ 165 Kb) Get Adobe Acrobat...
Dr Phil Boyle on Dignitas Personae
Dr Phil Boyle, fertility specialist at the Galway Clinic, Ireland, discusses some of the issues addressed in Dignitas Personae, Instruction on Certain Bioethical Questions, published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on 12 December 2008:...
Bishop Donal Murray on Dignitas Personae
Bishop Donal Murray, Bishop of Limerick and Chair of the Irish Catholic Bishops' Consultative Group for Bioethics, discusses some of the issues addressed in Dignitas Personae, an Instruction on Certain Bioethical Questions, published by the Congregation for the...
End of Life Care – Summary
"DAY FOR LIFE" 2002 "End of Life Care - Ethical and Pastoral Issues" Irish Bishops' Committee for Bioethics SUMMARY Palliative Care avoids two extremes Advances in medicine and in technology mean that the taking of decisions about appropriate care for people who have...
Assisted Human Reproduction: Facts and Ethical Issues
Assisted Human Reproduction: Facts and Ethical Issues (Originally Published in 2000, by Veritas Publications, Dublin,for the Bishops’ Committee for Bioethics) (Text revised by the Bishops' Committee for Bioethics, April 3rd. 2003) Table of Contents Chapter 1 Assisted...
Christian compassion means that the right to life of the unborn child is an absolute – Bishops
PRESS RELEASE 7 October 2007 Christian compassion means that the right to life of the unborn child is an absolute - Bishops Background: Following the October General Meeting of the Irish Episcopal Conference earlier this week, the following joint statement has been...
Synodality and Evangelisation are the two sides of the same coin - Cardinal Grech
What is most encouraging the integrity of the process - Julieann Moran & Fr Eamonn Fitzgibbon
"We were greatly encouraged that we were not alone" - Bishop Fintan Monahan
"There was a real sense that people feel they have gifts they want to offer " - Prof Anna Rowlands
Building Hope - Moving Forward in 2023
What you could sense was a deep love for the Church
What we heard from Catholics from around the world - Austen Ivereigh
"I just feel a great sense of gratitude" - National Pre-Synodal Assembly
"We have been coming to this day since the Second Vatican Council" National Pre-Synodal Assembly
"It reaffirmed the work that was done in the various dioceses ..." National Pre-Synodal Assembly
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