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Take the Angelus off our screens
Tuesday February 09 2010
THE presentation of the Angelus on RTE television -- a piece of religious propaganda only screened in the Republic and nowhere else in the world outside the Vatican -- must be removed for a number of reasons, not least of which is because it is sectarian.
I pity people with no spiritual element in their lives. Where life only consists of the material, it seems to me to be bleak and unimaginative
Saturday February 06 2010
On social networking sites, you can cut your links with a previous friend by formally 'unfriending' them. Andrew Madden, who was scandalously abused as a young altarboy by the paedophile priest Ivan Payne, has done something similar with the Catholic church by formally cutting his links with his baptismal faith on the Count Me Out website.
Outspoken critic of violence who bridged religious divide
Saturday January 02 2010
The death of Cardinal Cahal Brendan Daly from cardiac failure in a Belfast hospital, aged 92, marks the passing of the most important and internationally renowned Irish Church leader during the turbulent period from the late 1960s until his retirement as Primate of All Ireland in 1996.
The highs and lows of 2009
Saturday December 26 2009
ll Before its demise, RTE1's Questions and Answers came up with a moment that will linger in the memory -- the furiously eloquent impromptu tirade by audience member Michael O'Brien, who had been beaten and raped when a boy by the Rosminians in Clonmel. Minister Noel Dempsey, whose "mealy-mouthed words" had occasioned the man's rage, looked suitably chastened.
The twelve ways of Christmas
Saturday December 19 2009
It could all have been so different. But for a few quirks of history, Christmas, as we know it, would be unrecognisable to the bacchanial feast we enjoy today. If the Roman Emperor Constantine hadn't found God in the year 325AD and fixed the celebration of Christmas Day for December 25, we might still be marking the feast day of the much more ancient sun god Mithras.
John Cooney: Old-style, secretive Church must be given the last rites
Monday December 14 2009
The slogan of 'A peasant Church for a peasant people' was created by the moulder of the highly centralised and secretive clericalist Catholic Church in Ireland, which is crumbling in the wake of the paedophile priest scandals.
Bishop Murray: Pastor, author and intellectual
Tuesday December 08 2009
DONAL Murray was Cardinal Desmond Connell's protege.
Letters: Clerics must pay for what they did
Sunday December 06 2009
Sir -- I am absolutely appalled and angry at the attitude and downright arrogance of the Catholic Church, seeing how they behaved after all that has been exposed in the Dublin Archdiocese by the recent report on child abuse.
Past leaders would not bend the knee
Sunday December 06 2009
One of the more remarkable things about Judge Murphy's report into clerical child abuse was its suggestion that the culture of political cowardice and capitulation it described stretched right back into the distant Irish past.
Ruth Dudley Edwards: Rejoice! The resurrection of Conrad is coming soon
Sunday December 06 2009
CONRAD Black hasn't gone away, you know. Indeed, this week he's making another bid for freedom -- this time in the US Supreme Court.
Go now, bishop, before Vatican sends you a P45
Tuesday December 01 2009
MOST certainly Donal Murray should resign as Bishop of Limerick and respect the state judicial finding of the Murphy commission that his mishandling of complaints against the notorious paedophile cleric Thomas Naughton was "inexcusable".
Connell must come clean without any 'reservation'
Monday November 30 2009
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin and Cardinal Desmond Connell have been in direct personal contact since last Thursday when the explosive Commission Report into the Archdiocese of Dublin's cover-ups of clerical child sex abuse ignited the biggest challenge ever to the moral authority and credibility of both the Vatican and the Irish hierarchy.
