New Irish bishop calls for women ‘priests,’ then changes tune
Meanwhile, the Irish synodal path looks for ‘new models of … leadership’ for women in the Church.
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Irish couple aborts son with ‘fatal foetal abnormality,’ then finds out he was perfectly healthy
Finding out that a healthy baby was killed rather than a sick one should just remind us that in an abortion, a baby is killed. Christopher had the right to life regardless of his health.
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Irish police raid home, seize children of man who recorded police disrupting Mass a week before
The children, whose parents had been involved in a months-long custody dispute, have now been returned to their mother in France.
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Head of Scottish bishops issues rare rebuke of Irish gov’t. over ‘unjust’ worship ban
‘Recent developments that penalize the celebration of Holy Mass have been disturbing not only to the Irish bishops’ conference but also to the bishops of Scotland.’
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Ireland to allow public worship for the first time in almost five months
While public religious services may resume on May 10, they have been prohibited since December 26, 2020.
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Ireland bill would ban Catholic teaching, counseling for same-sex attraction, priest warns
The plain language of the bill ‘could easily be construed to include conversations in pastoral settings, homilies, catechesis of children or adults, or even the advice given to a person in confession.’
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Bishop Schneider sends message of encouragement to Irish Catholics locked out of churches
A "Rosary Rally' campaign outside parish churches is underway 'every Sunday until Mass returns.'
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Ireland targets the Church: Outdoor Confessions are illegal, but chatting with a priest isn’t
‘The ban on public worship is not, and has not been for some time, a matter of health but of sectarianism and more specifically anti-Catholicism and anti-Christianity,’ Kathy Sinnott, a former Member of the European Parliament for Ireland, told LifeSiteNews.
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Irish Catholic bishop distances himself from Vatican’s ban on same-sex blessings
Bishop Paul Dempsey of Achonry called the ban a ‘hurtful response from the Church to people with same sex orientation.’
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Brother seeks justice in case that unfairly tarnished pro-life Irish celebrity’s political career
John Brown, brother of Irish Catholic pop-star and pro-life politician Dana Rosemary Scallon, is suing Scotland Yard and the British Crown Prosecution Service for £5 million after being cleared of historic sex abuse accusations
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