Some 25% of children in 2023 raked in more than €800. A further 10% received €1,000. But maybe we should all just relax about it
Catholic Church
Sr Rose Carmel McNamara left Dublin for England at 17 and finds herself helping the poor in Romania at 82
Film director Marco Bellocchio on Edgardo Mortara, a ‘baptised’ Jewish boy taken from his family, and scandal that weakened power of pope
Study finds capacity to foster Catholic ethos of schools ‘shrinking’ with decline in those able to deliver faith-based education
Modernity is causing a drop-off in people identifying as Catholic, but the Polish clergy also bears some responsibility
‘Our country has changed, our lives have changed,’ Dermot Farrell told event in Donnybrook
Throughout the world Catholic schooling is highly regarded, but in Ireland feelings are mixed
Fr Eddie Elliott, originally from Dublin’s Ringsend, spent over 40 years in Mexico with Divine Word Missionaries
St Mary’s in Dublin 7 is first Catholic school to come under Educate Together patronage in State as part of pilot programme
Church of Ireland has already merged many of the 26 dioceses established in 1111 AD at the Synod of Ráth Breasail
Move is described as most radical change to Irish church structures in more than 900 years
During Communion and Confirmation season the situation is particularly bleak. The sense of othering is worse when students are from non-Irish backgrounds
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