Eamon Martin

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Archbishop Eamon Martin. Photograph: Tom Honan
Catholic Primate appeals for information on remaining NI Disappeared

Catholic Primate Archbishop Eamon Martin has appealed for a anyone with information about the so-called Disappeared in Northern Ireland to provide it (...)

Mary McAleese spoke of the document’s ‘unbearably vicious language which can only have brought more heartache to our gay children and to us their families’. File photograph: Nick Bradshaw
McAleese criticises pope as populist who raises then dashes hopes

Former president Mary McAleese has criticised Pope Francis as a populist who raises expectations only to dash them, following a Vatican document publi(...)

‘For people of faith not to be free to worship until regulations return to Level 2, whilst many other restrictions are eased, is seen as particularly distressing and unjust,’ the archbishops said.
Taoiseach ‘surprised’ by Catholic bishops’ plea on Covid rules

Catholic bishops are urging church members to lobby their TDs over Covid-related restrictions on Masses and funerals, saying limits on public worship (...)

Eamon Martin the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland has urged the Taoiseach to consider increasing the number of bereaved allowed to attend funerals. Photograph: PA
Priests concerned at Archbishops’ request for public worship over Easter

A group representing Catholic priests has expressed misgivings at moves by the Church’s four Archbishops in Ireland to allow people “gather safely for(...)

Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman says he can understand the ‘very real anger’ of the survivors unhappy about the destruction of the recordings. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Transcripts of all mother and baby home testimonies available

Transcripts of all testimonies given in confidence to the Mother and Baby Homes Commission will be handed over to the Minister for Children next week (...)

With Catholic priests unable to mark people’s foreheads with ashes this Wednesday to mark the beginning of Lent due to Covid-19 restrictions, one diocese is offering advice on how to do so at home. File photograph: iStock.
DIY method proposed as Ash Wednesday blessings halted by Covid-19

With Catholic priests unable to mark people’s foreheads with ashes this Wednesday to mark the beginning of Lent due to Covid-19 restrictions, one dioc(...)

The site of a mass grave for children who died in the Tuam mother and baby home in Galway. Like the Magdalene inquiry, the commission did not support a preferred narrative and this seems to be at the root of much of the criticism. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA
Impugning the mother and baby commission does not serve victims

Three weeks ago today the report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission was published and this month marks the eighth anniversary of the publication (...)

Good Shepherd Catholic Church on the Ormeau Road in Belfast. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire
Independent inquiry to examine North’s mother and baby homes

An investigation into Northern Ireland’s mother and baby homes and Magdalene laundries will be independent and put the needs of victims first, Norther(...)

Church of Ireland Primate and Archbishop of Armagh John McDowell said they had decided that in-person gatherings should remain suspended with the exception of weddings, funerals, as permitted by regulations. Photograph: iStock
Churches in North extend restrictions on public worship until March

All churches in Northern Ireland have extended restrictions on public worship until March. A similar restriction operates in the Republic with no indi(...)

A man lays flowers this week at a shrine in Tuam, Co Galway, erected in memory of up to 800 children buried at the site of the mother and baby home there. Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP/Getty
Women and children in mother and baby homes ‘abandoned by church’

The women and children who suffered in mother and baby homes were “abandoned by their church”, a Cork priest has said during Sunday Mass. Fr Colin D(...)

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