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Dualta Roughneen

September 12, 2022
The story of an Irish teacher being jailed for refusing to comply with a request from his school to refer to a girl using the pronoun ‘they’ and use that person’s new name has received global attention.   Although the story is not so straightforward as presented by both his supporters and detractors, the substantive issue
August 19, 2022
The Irish Catholic bishops, as part of the Irish Synodal Pathway, released their synthesis report of a wide-ranging listening phase on 16 August. Prepared after countrywide consultations across the 26 dioceses of Ireland, the document is presented as an amalgamation of the reports from each diocese, 29 additional submissions and the results of a National Synodal
May 26, 2022
The first paragraph of the leaked draft of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade states:  Abortion presents a profound moral issue on which Americans hold sharply-conflicting views.   Replace America with Ireland, and the same has been the case for over 40 years, until recently. As of the past few years, the issue of abortion
May 11, 2022
Attacking the reputation of a Catholic saint, no longer alive to defend herself (although it’s unlikely she would bother in any case), is a popular sport. Christopher Hitchens set the tone in 1995 with his book The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, and since then it has been open house on one of the Catholic
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