The year is closing and it is time to glance back at everything that happened during 2015. We can say that we are in the midst of generalised chaos that has grown a lot during this time not just in our country but also throughout the whole world. In this moment, seemingly so void of...
Recently the Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) announced that healthcare workers in Galway are the best, outside of Dublin, “when it comes to seeking training and advice on transgender issues.”1 Around the same time, at a conference, the Minister for Education, Ms Jan O’Sullivan said, “young transgender people were a particularly vulnerable group” and needed...
Written by Voice of the Family ROME, 18th June 2015 The international coalition Voice of the Family is deeply concerned by the omission from the encyclical letter Laudato Si of a reaffirmation of the Church’s teaching against contraception and on procreation as the primary end of the sexual act. The encyclical, published this morning, contains...
There are many reasons why we should defend traditional marriage. The most important of these reasons is that it conforms to the natural law and, above all, to the moral law, and therefore it is the will of God. It should be clear that regarding same-sex “marriage”, the use of the word “marriage” should always...
Man needs hope as much as the air he breathes. Lacking air, he feels asphyxiated; without hope, he falls into discouragement and despair. The upshot is that, when beset by life’s trials or in times of crises that affect countries, peoples and civilisations, he strives to find reasons for hope. A Russian “Charlemagne”? No one,...
Man needs hope as much as the air he breathes. Lacking air, he feels asphyxiated; without hope, he falls into discouragement and despair. The upshot is that, when beset by life’s trials or in times of crises that affect countries, peoples and civilisations, he strives to find reasons for hope. A Russian “Charlemagne”? No one,...
"...stop offending God, another even worse war will begin in the reign of Pius XI… To prevent it [the war], I will come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart..."