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Colin Sheridan: The church told us to know our place — maybe now it finally knows its own
Abuse survivor and former Clonmel mayor Michael O’Brien gave 'a voice to the voiceless'
Abuse survivor and former Clonmel mayor Michael O’Brien gave 'a voice to the voiceless'
Michael O’Brien had made an impact on the nation in 2009 when he spoke on RTÉ about the abuse he had suffered at an industrial school

Thu, 24 Apr, 2025

Pope Francis visit to Ireland - Day 2
Pope Francis dies at age of 88, Vatican announces
The Vatican says the pontiff died at 7.35am on Monday morning

Mon, 21 Apr, 2025

Gardaí probe safeguarding issues following complaint about fundamentalist Catholic group
Gardaí probe safeguarding issues following complaint about fundamentalist Catholic group
Gardaí have confirmed that enquiries into the Society of St Pius resistance group are ongoing

Tue, 01 Apr, 2025

Kerry diocese makes history as lay people step up amid growing priest shortage 
Kerry diocese makes history as lay people step up amid growing priest shortage 
As Ireland faces a priest shortage, Kerry’s Diocese is empowering 25  lay ministers to take on key roles in parish life

Wed, 19 Mar, 2025

TP O’Mahony: Church's relationship with democracy has always been inconsistent 
TP O’Mahony: Church's relationship with democracy has always been inconsistent 
Pope Francis finds himself defending democracy against JD Vance’s unique brand of American Catholicism — a novel role for an absolute monarch

Wed, 19 Feb, 2025

Order names 15 deceased Jesuits subject to child abuse complaints
Order names 15 deceased Jesuits subject to child abuse complaints
Eight of the 15 names had already been the subject of complaints during their lifetime, with the other seven becoming the subject of complaints following their deaths

Wed, 12 Feb, 2025

Proposed Magdalene laundry museum encounters objections
Proposed Magdalene laundry museum encounters objections
Objections include the fact it will see the removal of high boundary walls which are 'part of Dublin's history'

Mon, 13 Jan, 2025

Jennifer Horgan: Focusing on forgiveness would make our world a better place
Jennifer Horgan: Focusing on forgiveness would make our world a better place
In every aspect of our lives and in how we run society, cutting back on blame and focusing on forgiveness and rehabilitation would make our world better

Fri, 03 Jan, 2025

Pope calls for hope and kindness in BBC's Thought for the Day message 
Pope calls for hope and kindness in BBC's Thought for the Day message 
In the message, Francis said: “Hope and kindness touch the very heart of the gospel and show us the path to follow in our behaviour"

Sat, 28 Dec, 2024

Diocese hopes Marian Grotto can be used as holy place despite safety concerns
Diocese hopes Marian Grotto can be used as holy place despite safety concerns
The Killarney-based quarry owner, Aidan Forde, said that falling rocks and other concerns means he has had to close off a public area

Sun, 15 Dec, 2024

Tour of St Bernadette's relics 'exceeds expectations' of clergy across the country 
Tour of St Bernadette's relics 'exceeds expectations' of clergy across the country 
During the two-month visit, the relics were taken to Ireland’s own Marian shrine in Knock, where hundreds of pilgrims attended Masses in the church on the site of the apparition of Mary in 1879

Tue, 05 Nov, 2024

Kamala Harris
Irish Examiner view: Harris needs to get out the vote
Democrats are concerned that those who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 have become disengaged with the political process since then, because they feel less alarmed by Trump and his MAGA movement

Tue, 22 Oct, 2024

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Colm O'Connor: Religion classes are an issue of human rights, not school management
Thousands of schools deny the religious rights of parents and students on a daily basis

Sun, 20 Oct, 2024

Survivors welcome 'overdue' legislation aimed at preserving institutional records
Survivors welcome 'overdue' legislation aimed at preserving institutional records
Survivors have expressed serious concerns about access to personal records and information related to their experience in institutions.

Wed, 16 Oct, 2024

Pope Benedict XVI Celebrates Mass At Nationals Stadium
S Gareth O'Callaghan: Priests are having affairs — is it really such a shocking fact?
I have never seen any sense in the vow of celibacy. It has always struck me as biologically and emotionally unnatural. So why won’t the Catholic Church allow its priests to marry?

Sun, 06 Oct, 2024

Calls for Cork diocese to gift bishop’s palace to the city instead of selling it
Calls for Cork diocese to gift bishop’s palace to the city instead of selling it
Bishop Fintan Gavin said the property, which hasn’t been used as a residence for over 20 years, is no longer fit for purpose

Thu, 19 Sep, 2024

Cork diocese to sell historic bishop's palace to fund build of new pastoral centre
Cork diocese to sell historic bishop's palace to fund build of new pastoral centre
The proposed new Cork and Ross Pastoral Centre will bring all diocesan functions under one roof

Thu, 19 Sep, 2024

Has the Catholic Church become too Pope-centric? 
Has the Catholic Church become too Pope-centric? 
It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that the cult of papal personality is not going away anytime soon

Wed, 18 Sep, 2024

Childhood problems - Child abuse
S Gareth O'Callaghan: Our schools were never a haven, but instead a living hell
Schools were never havens. For all those victims of child abuse they were the closest thing to a living hell imaginable

Sun, 15 Sep, 2024

Blackrock College abuse
S Jennifer Horgan: State's ‘diabolical intelligence’ in dealing with abuse persists
THEY say time heals, but time can also warp and deceive. It flies, but it can also stand still. It can keep repeating.

Fri, 13 Sep, 2024

Boy Behind Glass Door
S Fergus Finlay: The next steps the government must take to help abused children
Not a single organisation has said they want to put all of the wealth at their disposal into helping people who have been traumatised and abused. And they won’t.

Tue, 10 Sep, 2024

Law must respond properly to sexual abuse of children in Catholic schools
Law must respond properly to sexual abuse of children in Catholic schools
If it can be shown to the High Court that the assets of the Church are suspected to be the product of criminal activity, it may guarantee sufficient funds become available for redress

Sat, 07 Sep, 2024

Amanda Knox, Luciano Ghirga
S Jennifer Horgan: Blowing a loud horn can make us tone-deaf to what's really going on
Why do people grossly oversimplify how humans respond to complex feelings of grief, sadness, vulnerability, and despair, asks Jennifer Horgan

Fri, 06 Sep, 2024

Twelfth of July parades
S Fergus Finlay: The political vacuum that exists in Northern Ireland is quite puzzling
It’s as if Northern Ireland has stopped mattering, even to the people who live there. Never mind what are they fighting about — what are they fighting for?

Tue, 03 Sep, 2024

Clodagh Finn: The Irish nun whose ‘escape’ divided Australia
Clodagh Finn: The Irish nun whose ‘escape’ divided Australia
If it were a film, the publicity might include an unlikely collection of taglines about a nun running barefoot from a convent in the dead of night, a charge of lunacy, a court case to prove the woman sane and her subsequent court case against a bishop

Sat, 31 Aug, 2024

Emily Blunt,John Krasinski
S Jennifer Horgan: How come Hollywood kills off mothers so fathers can shine?
The underlying message in these films is that while the death of the mother is tough, it makes you stronger. It is anti-socialist messaging at its most manipulative

Fri, 09 Aug, 2024

Jennifer Horgan: Collective amnesia at litany of sex abuse leaves victims’ stories buried
S Jennifer Horgan: Collective amnesia at litany of sex abuse leaves victims’ stories buried
Despite talk of disinterment, maybe we should ought to leave Eamonn Casey’s remains in the cathedral in Galway as a reminder of how many people helped put him there

Fri, 02 Aug, 2024

Clodagh Finn: The system has failed Lavinia Kerwick — yet again
S Clodagh Finn: The system has failed Lavinia Kerwick — yet again
It’s a stain on all of our services that Lavinia Kerwick’s experience is actually true

Sat, 27 Jul, 2024

Irish Examiner view: Church is still too secretive
Irish Examiner view: Church is still too secretive
'Bishop Casey’s Buried Secrets' was 90 minutes of excellent public service broadcasting which exposed allegations of child sexual abuse against the bishop

Wed, 24 Jul, 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris Campaigns In Philadelphia
Irish Examiner view: Democrats seek swing in momentum
While the early rush to endorse Kamala Harris was as impressive as it was widespread, her ability to tackle Donald Trump remains her biggest challenge

Tue, 23 Jul, 2024

Disgraced Bishop Eamon Casey was a 'sexual predator', according to new RTÉ documentary
Disgraced Bishop Eamon Casey was a 'sexual predator', according to new RTÉ documentary
The documentary will reveal how the Church received four separate complaints of childhood sexual abuse against Bishop Casey, along with one further 'child safeguarding concern'

Mon, 22 Jul, 2024

Terry Prone: Eamonn Casey — Man of the people with life of lies and sex crimes
S Terry Prone: Eamonn Casey — Man of the people with life of lies and sex crimes
A new documentary focuses on the worst of Casey: child abuse. But it also strips away the last remnants of a once-golden reputation

Sun, 21 Jul, 2024

Cork TD ‘taken aback’ by priest's refusal to give communion at funeral
Cork TD ‘taken aback’ by priest's refusal to give communion at funeral
The priest told Mr Burke that he had refused to give him communion because of the TD's support for abortion during the repealing of the Eight Amendment

Mon, 15 Jul, 2024

Clodagh Finn: Bridget Coll — nun, lesbian, law-changer, and militant
S Clodagh Finn: Bridget Coll — nun, lesbian, law-changer, and militant
Her story reads like fiction — a thriller even — just as the many words used to describe her don’t seem to fit together: nun, lesbian, teacher, militant, law-changer, even 'home-wrecker'

Sat, 29 Jun, 2024

Pope urges Italians to have more babies to tackle low birth rate
Pope urges Italians to have more babies to tackle low birth rate
“The number of births is the first indicator of the hope of a people,” Francis told an annual gathering of pro-family groups

Fri, 10 May, 2024

Michael Moynihan: Ain't that a shame — etiquette has been thrown under the bus
S Michael Moynihan: Ain't that a shame — etiquette has been thrown under the bus
We’re all post-shame now — post-shame, post-guilt, post-recrimination — so even if you think you can shame someone, you can’t.

Thu, 02 May, 2024

Sarah Harte: McGahern leaves us pondering what we have lost and gained
Sarah Harte: McGahern leaves us pondering what we have lost and gained
These are the men and women who took the boat in droves in the second half of the 20th century, to find work, and to flee institutional abuse

Wed, 01 May, 2024

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S Jennifer Horgan: Faith segregation in schools keeps children out of their communities
Reconfiguring schools, turning Catholic schools into multi-denominational schools, will result in children believing they are different to other children, when they are not so different at all

Fri, 12 Apr, 2024

Colin Sheridan: Resurrection greatest story ever told, whether you believe or not
S Colin Sheridan: Resurrection greatest story ever told, whether you believe or not
While many of us claim to be Roman Catholic, church attendance has plummeted and the Easter story is a casualty of the Church's very brutal folly

Sat, 30 Mar, 2024

Parishes in Kerry and Cork to review security amid break-in concerns 
Parishes in Kerry and Cork to review security amid break-in concerns 
Churches in Killarney have been targeted in broad daylight over the last number of months

Mon, 04 Mar, 2024

Baby formula milk price probe
Irish Examiner view: Baby formula price hikes must be examined 
Minister has the power to ask consumer watchdog to investigate and find a solution to benefit struggling families during the cost-of-living crisis

Tue, 27 Feb, 2024

Fergus Finlay: Bishops find themselves at odds with boss on definition of family
S Fergus Finlay: Bishops find themselves at odds with boss on definition of family
Bishops worried that removing the outdated and sexist language about women in the home might represent a failure to recognise the care, love, and affection that women bring to the home

Tue, 27 Feb, 2024

Gareth O'Callaghan: Vocations are like trends — they change over time
S Gareth O'Callaghan: Vocations are like trends — they change over time
I often ask myself why a man would want to become a priest in today’s Ireland

Sat, 17 Feb, 2024

Volunteers standing hands
One in seven people do regular voluntary work
In Cork County, the rate of volunteering was 16% compared to just 12% in the city

Thu, 01 Feb, 2024

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