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Church of Ireland Primate Archbishop John McDowell is one of four church leaders who have signed the letter, which is published in Monday’s Financial Times

Anglican archbishops say UK Brexit law will have ‘enormous moral’ impact

Patsy McGarry
October 19, 2020, 00:01

Church leaders ask ‘on what foundations does our democracy stand?’ if Bill is passed

Mother Teresa: questioning and doubting were part of the faith journey of a spiritual great who inspired millions

Thinking Anew – Faith is a journey of discovery

Gordon Linney
October 17, 2020, 00:01

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin: ‘Some of those who took part in these anti-mask demonstrations were the same groups that attempted to overturn my car when I attended an Islamic gathering in Croke Park.’ Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times

Diarmuid Martin warns against religious intolerance, anti-mask behaviour

Patsy McGarry
October 16, 2020, 15:23

Archbishop refers to attempts to overturn his car prior to Croke Park Eid event last July

Running in the Aughrim Climate Action Park are Fr Gerard Geraghty (front) Rev John Godfrey. Photograph: Gerry Stronge

Galway clergy pledge to run each day during Level 3 for spiritual and financial reasons

Patsy McGarry
October 15, 2020, 19:15

‘We want local people to join us in doing 3K-a-day until the churches open again’

Bishop of Clogher Larry Duffy said in some parishes in his cross-border diocese Mass is available in one part while not in the other.

Cross-border Catholics may attend Masses in NI parishes, but not in Republic

Patsy McGarry
October 15, 2020, 17:13

Over half Clogher parishes in Northern Ireland, with two in both jurisdictions

Pope Francis in the Vatican this week. “We sorely need an impetus, a guiding star to bring us back to what the Vatican Council was attempting to do, a conversation between the church and the world. Pope Francis is trying to get that process going.” Photograph: Filippo Monteforte/AFP via Getty Images

Thinking Anew – A time to talk and a time to listen

Michael Commane
October 10, 2020, 00:01

Rev Dr Sahr John Yambasu became an Irish citizen in 1989.

Rev Dr Sahr John Yambasu elected to lead Methodist Church

Patsy McGarry
October 9, 2020, 20:57

President-designate was born in Sierra Leone, worked as taxi driver and holds doctorate

Church of Ireland Primate Archbishop John McDowell (above) and Archbishop of Dublin Michael Jackson said they ‘recognised that very difficult situations and emotions can arise from the management of care towards the end of a life’.

Church of Ireland affirms ‘sacredness of human life’ in assisted dying debate

Patsy McGarry
October 8, 2020, 20:56

Presbyterian Moderator ‘deeply disappointed at Dáil vote on Dying with Dignity Bill’

Doctors and nurses should never be required to assist in the deliberate ending of life, the Catholic Bishops have said. Photograph: iStock

Catholic Bishops warn it will be ‘difficult to draw line’ on assisted suicide

Patsy McGarry
October 8, 2020, 12:10

Bishops encourage people to ‘persevere and not to lose heart’ as pandemic continues

‘The future relationship between the UK and the European Union will be the focus of debate and negotiation for many years to come’

Brexit: Ireland’s major churches appeal to UK and EU for clarity

Patsy McGarry
October 6, 2020, 10:07

Leaders welcome commitments to protect the Belfast Agreement

Australian Cardinal George Pell arrives at his residence in Rome, Italy on September 30th. Photograph: Fabio Frustaci/EPA

Sacked Vatican cardinal accused of bribing witnesses in abuse trial of rival

Patsy McGarry
October 5, 2020, 20:43

Italian newspapers say documents show money paid to secure imprisonment of Australian Cardinal George Pell

Pope Francis leads his Sunday prayer from his office overlooking Saint Peter’s Square. Photograph: EPA/Riccardo Antimiani

Pope says older people ‘cruelly abandoned’ to Covid-19

Patsy McGarry
October 4, 2020, 19:33

Pope Francis hopes deaths may not be ‘tragedy from which we learn nothing’

Sir David Attenborough has warned that our planet is in real danger. Photograph: AFP via Getty Images

Thinking Anew – Ruthless greed threatens our world

Gordon Linney
October 3, 2020, 00:01

Rector at St Nicholas’s, Rev Lynda Peilow, said “we are working hard also to ensure that St Nicholas’ will be around for another 700 years”. Photograph: iStock

Galway church visited by Columbus and used as stables by Cromwell’s troops celebrates 700 years

Patsy McGarry
September 30, 2020, 07:57

Collegiate Church of St Nicholas in city centre was completed in 1320

Arsenal’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang takes a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. The Church of Ireland said taking the knee ‘has become a symbol of protest against racial injustice and an expression of solidarity’. Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/PA Wire/NMC Pool.

Church of Ireland bishops approve ‘Taking the Knee’ ceremony

Patsy McGarry
September 29, 2020, 16:23

Clerics say racism denies belief ‘that all are made in God’s image’

The figure includes an unspecified number undergoing a one-year pre-seminary programme for those considering whether they have a vocation. File photograph: Getty Images

Thirteen men have begun training for or are considering priesthood

Patsy McGarry
September 28, 2020, 19:23

Five men ordained to Catholic priesthood in Ireland this year to date

Albert Gubay was born in Wales of an Iraqi-Jewish father and a devout Catholic mother from Co Clare. Photograph: Eddie Kelly

Albert Gubay foundation gives €500,000 to Irish Catholic charities

Patsy McGarry
September 28, 2020, 18:48

Fund recipient St Vincent de Paul Society appoints Rose McGowan as president

Photograph: Getty Images

Thinking Anew – Reaching beyond ‘us’ and ‘them’

Wendy May Jacobs
September 26, 2020, 00:01

The Catholic church ‘is 1.2 billion people which is why I stay’, former president Mary McAleese told BBC 4 Woman’s Hour programme. File photograph: James Forde for The Irish Times

People leaving Catholic church because they are tired of ‘little old men’ - McAleese

Shauna Bowers
September 24, 2020, 21:44

McAleese says church hierarchy is a ‘small, self-serving hermetically-sealed group of men’

Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has voiced concern that some are underestimating the current public health situation in Dublin. File photograph: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish Times

Martin ‘seriously concerned’ at Covid complacency amid pressure over church events

Kitty Holland
September 20, 2020, 10:20

Archbishop says he is worried about parishes taking initiatives to ‘get First Communions done’

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