Mr. Ganley, and all those who supported him in taking the case, have every right to feel aggrieved.
At this point, it would be unsurprising to see claims that Brigid was also an avid believer in Trans Rights and Assisted Suicide.
“Many more people are being persecuted in the world today because of their religion than are being so persecuted because of their sexual orientation,” he said.
Former ManU star advises against treating football as a religion
Photo Credit: www.chrisboland.com Had Rooney made these comments about Muslims, or Jews, she would be denounced by consensus as a far-right extremist. As it is, all she has done is to articulate the acceptable, and accepted, bigotry of her own caste. Say whatever you like about catholics, and the most people will do is maintain […]
Got woke, went…. you know the rest.
The benefits of religion to mental health are well documented and its positive impact during the pandemic has been confirmed by a number of recent studies. Covid-19 has had a profound effect on our lives. Significant moments such as baptisms, first communions, weddings, were postponed due to the restrictions imposed by the government. Many could […]
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 […]
Recently, I spent some time on the phone with Niall Ferguson, the Scottish historian and Milbank Family Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, for a review I was writing of his latest book, Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe. In the first chapter, Ferguson refers several times to religion as “magical thinking,” and I asked him if he […]
Amidst all the tiresome controversy around the proposed ethos of the new national maternity hospital, which is now slated to cost, naturally, some €800m, one thing has been forgotten: The Sisters of Charity, in an act of timeless folly, volunteered for this public whipping. After all, they are choosing to donate the land on which […]
Thank God for Mary McAleese. It was shaping up to be a fairly slow news day today, ad we were sitting around scratching our heads wondering if anything at all would pop up that was slightly interesting, and worth writing about. Thankfully, Mrs. McAleese has come through to save the day by saying something immeasurably […]
From 2012 to 2017 the decision to relocate the National Maternity Hospital at Holles Street to a site on the Elm Park campus of St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin, owned by the Religious Sisters of Charity, created sustained levels of public controversy. Indeed, the proposal was attacked from every side of the political and cultural […]