A painting by Dudley G. Summers depicts the Four Chaplains in prayer together on the deck of the torpedoed USAT Dorchester Feb. 3, 1943. Seventy-Five Years Ago, Four U.S. Army Chaplains Made the Ultimate Sacrifice at Sea In the early morning hours of Feb. 3, 1943, the USAT Dorchester was steaming across frigid, U-boat-infested waters in […]
The city of Beijing is adding 16 reproductive health technologies to its health insurance programs in an effort to boost the birth rates. Other cities are thinking of following suit. Last year, the national birth rate fell to its lowest level since 1949, 1.3 children per woman, even though the government abolished its notorious one-child […]
“It would be a moral and medical disaster if Britain became a surrogacy centre”.
A theory of mob violence by the French philosopher René Girard explains much of our cancel culture
The European Parliament called for the legalisation of abortion in Ireland. The opinion, passed in Strasbourg by 321 votes to 122; it carried no legislative weight but provoked a storm of political controversy. It was not the first and wouldn’t be the last time institutions within the European Union would admonish Ireland for it’s pro-life […]
“No apology. God bless the Republic”
On the 5th February 1981, republican prisoners in Long Kesh issued a statement to the British government that unless the prisoners were awarded special category status, there could be further hunger strikes. There had been several smaller strikes in the Maze and Armagh Women’s Prison previously following the tradition of Thomas Ashe, Terence MacSwiney, Frank […]
For fertility to rise, people must change how they think about their families
The Fenian Rising of 1867 nó Éirí Amach na bhFíníní was a rebellion against British rule in Ireland, organised by the Irish Republican Brotherhood. The Fenians were a transatlantic association consisting of the IRB, founded in Dublin by James Stephens in 1858, and the Fenian Brotherhood, founded in the United States by John O’Mahony and […]
ON THIS DAY: 4TH MARCH is shared by 3 famous people connected with Irish freedom, whose birthdays occurred on this day. Robert Emmet – 1778 was an Irish Republican and nationalist, patriot, orator and rebel leader. After leading an abortive rebellion against British rule in 1803 he was captured then tried and executed for high treason […]
The noted Victorian author Charles Dickens used his writings to highlight social issues that were of importance to him. One cause he reserved particularly harsh criticism was for individuals who styled themselves as philanthropists but whose charitable motives were more to serve their own vanity. In one of his early journalistic pieces Dickens poked fun at the […]
Anorexia nervosa has the second highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder after opioid use