There was a bit of toing and froing between RTE and the Catholic Communications Office this week over a report on PrimeTime last Tuesday on the problems facing the Catholic Church and on the decision by Cardinal Sean Brady to stay in office. The report featured a number of inaccuracies that I spotted myself on [...]
Tags:Bishop of Clogher·Bishop Willie Walsh·Canon Law·Catholic Church·Donal Murray·Joseph Duffy
The Irish Catholic reports (not sure of publication date) that there is growing support for a concientious objector or ‘religious freedom’ amendment to the Civil Partnership Bill. (h/t Ian) Amongst the TD’s quoted as being supportive are Mattie McGrath (FF – Tipperary South) and Lucinda Creighton (FG Dublin South East) Irish Catholic editor (and former [...]
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The Second Stage Debate for the Civil Partnership Bill will take place on December 3rd at 6.45pm and is scheduled to take two hours. There will be Committee and Report stages scheduled at a later date. (This is where the opposition and sometimes government propose amendments to the Bill.) Thursday night means a load of [...]
Tags:#cpbill·Catholic Church·Child abuse·Civil Partnership Bill
According to today’s Observer, the European Commission has told the UK Government that it must change a new Equality Law as the exemption proposed for Religious bodies contravenes ‘an EU directive prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of a person’s sexual orientation.’ The law allowed religious groups to discriminate against gay employees “so as to avoid conflicting [...]
Tags:#cpbill·Directive·Discrimination·European Commission·European Union·Religion·Sexual orientation
Other than wonder about the nature of the group which helped the mother in the Roscommon Case take a High Court action everyone should be asking What were the schools doing? What did the doctor or public health nurse do? What did the neighbours do? The shopkeepers? Why didn’t the health board go through other [...]
Tags:Child abuse·Child protection·Church·Iona Institute·Roman Catholic Church·Social work
Ah those wise Celibate men (or they are supposed to be celibate) were holding their Autumn conference for the last few days and launching a new website yesterday. And in their statement released after their meeting they told us that they were talking about civil partnership. The full text of their thoughts relating to the [...]
In 1982 Eileen Flynn lost her job. The reason for her dismissal was that she was pregnant, unmarried and the father of her child was a married man. Eileen was a teacher in a convent school in New Ross and the school asked her to resign and said it would given her 3 months pay. [...]
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So what did Willie Walsh, Bishop of Killaloe and friend of the opressed ever do to deserve the wrath of Clerical Whispers?? His collusion with the force in general has paid off as well considering that 2 Garda patrol cars and a Garda van were called to Ennis cathedral last week in an attempt to [...]
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Thanks to Frank @ Cedar Lounge for letting me know that I’ll be missing Fr. John Harvey’s visit to the RDS Dublin tomorrow to speak at the Human Life International Conference. The talk I’ll be missing whilst doing some very queer shopping checking out all the dykes in Liffey Valley is entitled Homosexuality: Helping the [...]
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Robert Scoble and others interview the nun who’s in charge of the Vatican website. I don’t know whether to be scared or supportive of the work of Sister Judith Zoebelein. It’s a very interesting interview – Church goes second life and then back to first life and then to the next life probably. She does [...]
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