CNA: A priest whose father was executed following Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising has died at the age of 104, after a lifetime of mission work. Father Joseph Mallin, S.J., passed away early Easter Sunday at a Jesuit community house in … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Ireland
Ireland: Pro-Abortion Activists Will Not ‘Accept’ a ‘No’ to Repealing Anti-Abortion Law by Referendum
Is this a threat? The Irish Times, Lara Marlowe, Pat Leahy: Campaigners for repeal of the Eighth amendment will not accept a No vote in the forthcoming referendum, Minister for Social Protection Regina Doherty has said; Report is here.
Ireland Rejects Pressure From UN to Legalize Abortion
[Dr. Ruth] Cullen [Head of Pro-Life Campaign] said: “Calls for abortion legislation fly in the face of the United Nation’s own recent research showing that Ireland, without abortion, is a world leader in terms of safety for women in pregnancy. … Continue reading
Pro-Life Party Takes Majority Seats in Ireland’s Lower House
No exceptions. No compromise. Good news for Ireland. Check this report from Zoe Romanowsky on Inside Catholic website.
European Court to Hear Case Today Re. Ireland’s Constitutional Ban on Abortion
Whatever the carrot was to get Ireland to join the EU, it has lost its sovereignty in taking it. LifeNews: The plaintiffs, three anonymous women A., B., and C., are asking that the Court create a right to abortion in … Continue reading
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day I just read on the New Advent website the Catholic Encyclopedia’s excellent account of the life of Erin’s great apostle. I would highly recommend it if you can spare fifteen minutes today. I can’t think of … Continue reading
Saint Patrick, Rekindle the Faith of Your Children
For some reason a line from the crazy Irishman in Braveheart comes to mind: “It’s my island.” The emerald isle is Patrick’s island. How far your people have wandered, O great shepherd, from the path of the cross that they … Continue reading
Snakes Be Gone
I want to get these facts out a month early, so that come next month, the 17th of March to be precise, when some smart-aleck, Irish Catholic, college grad writes in your local paper that there were no snakes in … Continue reading
European Court at War Against Ireland’s Abortion Ban
Lifenews reports: The pro-abortion lobby is determined to overturn Ireland’s constitutional ban on abortion in a case before the European Court of Human Rights which will have worldwide implications, including in the US, according to American legal experts. The Society … Continue reading