There was a bit of toing and froing between RTE and the Catholic Communications Office this week over a report on PrimeTime last Tuesday on the problems facing the Catholic Church and on the decision by Cardinal Sean Brady to stay in office. The report featured a number of inaccuracies that I spotted myself on […]
Tags:Bishop of Clogher·Bishop Willie Walsh·Canon Law·Catholic Church·Donal Murray·Joseph Duffy
The Irish Catholic reports (not sure of publication date) that there is growing support for a concientious objector or ‘religious freedom’ amendment to the Civil Partnership Bill. (h/t Ian) Amongst the TD’s quoted as being supportive are Mattie McGrath (FF – Tipperary South) and Lucinda Creighton (FG Dublin South East) Irish Catholic editor (and former […]
Tags:#cpbill·Dublin South East·Fianna Fáil·Fine Gael·Labour·Lucinda Creighton·Mattie McGrath
The Second Stage Debate for the Civil Partnership Bill will take place on December 3rd at 6.45pm and is scheduled to take two hours. There will be Committee and Report stages scheduled at a later date. (This is where the opposition and sometimes government propose amendments to the Bill.) Thursday night means a load of […]
Tags:#cpbill·Catholic Church·Child abuse·Civil Partnership Bill
According to today’s Observer, the European Commission has told the UK Government that it must change a new Equality Law as the exemption proposed for Religious bodies contravenes ‘an EU directive prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of a person’s sexual orientation.’ The law allowed religious groups to discriminate against gay employees “so as to avoid conflicting […]
Tags:#cpbill·Directive·Discrimination·European Commission·European Union·Religion·Sexual orientation
Other than wonder about the nature of the group which helped the mother in the Roscommon Case take a High Court action everyone should be asking What were the schools doing? What did the doctor or public health nurse do? What did the neighbours do? The shopkeepers? Why didn’t the health board go through other […]
Tags:Child abuse·Child protection·Church·Iona Institute·Roman Catholic Church·Social work