Rite & Reason: Newman wrote, “if I were an Irishman, I should be (in heart) a rebel”
Catholic Church
Vatican says old approach was no longer useful or viable in the internet age
Doctrine office overhauled norms first issued in 1978, arguing that they were no longer useful or viable in the Internet age
Very little has changed in terms of doctrine, even if the background music is softer and less dogmatic
Just 8% of children in the North attend integrated schools. 90-year-old former priest David Rice says helping to change this is his final battle
Some 25% of children in 2023 raked in more than €800. A further 10% received €1,000. But maybe we should all just relax about it
Sr Rose Carmel McNamara left Dublin for England at 17 and finds herself helping the poor in Romania at 82
Film director Marco Bellocchio on Edgardo Mortara, a ‘baptised’ Jewish boy taken from his family, and scandal that weakened power of pope
Study finds capacity to foster Catholic ethos of schools ‘shrinking’ with decline in those able to deliver faith-based education
Modernity is causing a drop-off in people identifying as Catholic, but the Polish clergy also bears some responsibility
‘Our country has changed, our lives have changed,’ Dermot Farrell told event in Donnybrook
Throughout the world Catholic schooling is highly regarded, but in Ireland feelings are mixed
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