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Court frees gender ideology prisoner of conscience
December 22, 2022
The Irish teacher Enoch Burke, who was incarcerated in Ireland for three months, has been released from prison in advance of Christmas despite his refusal to purge his contempt of court. Mr Burke was jailed in September this year for breaching a court order which stopped him from attending work at the school from which
Merely Catholic Podcast: Re-imagining English Catholicism
December 15, 2022
Dr Serenhedd James joins Gavin Ashenden for this 30th episode of Merely Catholic
The Irish Church: saints and sinners
December 05, 2022
Roy Foster admires Mary Kenny’s latest collection of essays on 20th-century Ireland
Ireland’s proposed ‘hate speech’ laws will lead to the criminalisation of religious beliefs and Church teaching
November 02, 2022
The new proposed law in Ireland will criminalise Catholics for their beliefs, writes Dubhaltach O Reachtnin Last week in Ireland proposed legislation was put forward to create a new crime under Irish law: “hate speech”.  Under the new law, “a person shall be guilty of an offence if  “(a) the person— (i) communicates material to the
Laypeople will need to step up if the Irish church declines any further
October 26, 2022
What are we to make of the condition of the Irish clergy as seen in an analysis by the Association of Catholic Priests in their annual meeting in Athlone last week? Their report shows that 547 priests of the 2,100 working priests in the Irish Church are aged between 61 and 75 and nearly 300
Does bishop’s intervention herald pushback against Irish synodal process?
August 31, 2022
As Bishop of Waterford and Lismore speaks out, will others follow?
Go woke, go broke: why Irish Church’s liberal turn should be treated with caution
August 16, 2022
Hot on the heels of the Catholic Church’s liberal drift in Germany, it seems the Catholic Church in Ireland – once the defining feature of Irish identity – is following the German model in terms of liberal drift. On Monday, the Catholic Church in Ireland sent a synthesis of 26 diocesan reports seeking reforms to
When the Church over-reached
August 27, 2021
The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland Crawford Gribben Oxford University Press, £25, 352 pages _________ There is a growing literature about the demise of Irish Christianity. The latest comes from Crawford Gribben of Queen’s University, Belfast. It is called, simply, The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland and it is a broad, sweeping, readable
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