Last March following their spring meeting the Catholic Bishops issued a statement and published a leaflet on marriage and the family. Yesterday they met for the summer meeting and made another statement on the Civil Partnership Bill. * Protection and support for marriage and family Bishops discussed the statement Why Marriage Matters which was published […]
Tags:Bishops' Conference·Catholic Church·Civil Partnership Bill·Dáil Éireann·Freedom of thought·Law·Oireachtas·Same-sex relationship
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 Catholic Bishops have been having their spring meeting for the past three days and the press conference today saw them complain about unfair treatment by the media and also express their concerns about the civil partnership bill. The Press release sent out at the end of the meeting says that the bishops are going […]
Tags:Bishops' Conference·Catholic Church·Civil Partnership·Civil Partnership Bill·Patsy McGarry
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 […]
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Do the Iona Institute think the Irish public and their elected representatives are a few sultanas short of the full wedding cake? Well they must obviously with the latest line of lobbying that is underway with regard to the Civil Partnership Bill. Yesterday we heard that Iona Institute and their Director, my favourite passive aggressive, […]
Tags:Catholic Church·Civil Partnership Bill·Fianna Fáil·Iona Institute·Society and Culture