The Irish Catholic

The Irish State needs to be “honest” and have “coherence” if it is to sustain a genuinely pluralist school system. It also needs to “stop narrowing rights while speaking the language of inclusion”, the Catholic Education Partnership (CEP) has told the United Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in a lengthy submission to its Universal Periodic Review...

Human dignity is “non-negotiable”, Bishop Niall Coll has said in response to the new papal encyclical on Artificial Intelligence. The document, titled Magnifica Humanitas, warns that technology must always be at the service of people, rather than the other way around.

Writing for The Irish News on June 1, the Raphoe bishop suggested that the pontiff’s first enc...

Pop star Keith Duffy has said his faith helped him through the “dark and difficult” period following the death of his Boyzone bandmate Stephen Gately.

Speaking to the Sunday Independent, the singer said he suffered “horrendous” nightmares after Gately’s death in 2009 and would drink heavily because “when you pass out drunk you don’t dream”.

Asked wh...

Taoiseach Micheal Martin has been criticised for appointing as a junior minister the only Fianna Fail TD who voted in favour of a recent bill from the Social Democrats that would have abolished the three-day waiting period before a woman can have an abortion. This was among other changes the bill would have introduced aimed at making Ireland’s abortion law even more l...

Too much focus on who can and cannot be ordained as a priest risks distracting from Vatican II’s call to holiness and mission for all the baptised, the Bishop of Down and Connor, Dr Alan McGuckian has warned. He made the comment during a video conversation with theologian Dr Abigail Favale, after the question of women’s ordination h...