51% of Irish adults pray once a week
Second anniversary of murder
Please don’t tell me that “it’s only a mask”.
31% say their faith ‘isn’t as strong’
753 years in town
“Everyone’s messages will be scanned all the time.”
Though almost all Covid restrictions have been lifted, there are still people being fined for violating them over a year ago. As reported in the Independent today, one 26 year old man has just been fined by Swords District Court. He was found guilty of travelling from Blanchardstown to Donabate beach with his girlfriend for […]
Stunning figures here, courtesy of the Iona Institute, which has been commissioning regular polling on Mass attendance throughout the pandemic: A new Amarach Research poll commissioned by The Iona Institute shows that 46pc of Catholics who were going to Mass on a regular basis before the pandemic began last year have returned to Mass since […]
This is one of those stories that functions as an almost perfect Rorschach test: If you side with Donnelly here, chances are you’re not a fan of the church and would cheer almost anything said about them. Because there is literally no other reason to indulge this nonsense: “When you’re dealing with a deadly virus, […]
A Clare priest has revealed that he has been celebrating public Mass “the whole time” throughout the Level 5 lockdown, with an average of over 50 attendees in his church, and has defended the practice as perfectly safe. Fr. Willie Cummins, who is the parish priest of Ennistymon – a town in north clare – […]
Gardai enter a church in Athlone today and forced a stop to the celebration of Mass. One woman praying in the church told Gript she found the Garda actions “deeply upsetting “. More to follow
Every person committed to upholding Constitutional freedoms and every person of faith should opposed the Goverment’s draconian and provocative Regulation ( SI 171 of 2021) as an assault on religious freedom. Archbishop Eamon Martin has done a great service not alone to his flock but to democracy in pushing back strongly against this disingenuous and […]