What’s that sound you hear? Why, it must be the wailing and grinding of teeth coming from the Vatican, where they will doubtlessly have read Patsy McGarry’s article yesterday about the forthcoming “Mass Boycott”:
“AN 80-YEAR-OLD woman is organising a one-day boycott of Sunday Mass “by the faithful women of Ireland” next month. Jennifer Sleeman from [...]
Today’s Scotsman carries a fascinating story about a study carried out by the UK’s Mental Health Foundation (MHF) which suggests that – despite the technological advances that have made people more interconnected and easily contactable than ever before – loneliness and feelings of isolation are on the rise.
10,000 children called Childline in the UK last year [...]
UPDATE: The text in the original post is not the text as it was actually delivered. I have removed the original text and will replace it with an accurate copy later today. (26th March)
One year ago today, my old boss, Declan Ganley, delivered the keynote address to a conference of religious activists in County Roscommon. [...]
Let’s face it – there is literally nothing that the Pope could have said, short of announcing that he considered the church he leads to have absolutely no moral authority and to have ceased to be worth listening to, that would have satisfied most of the Irish commentariat. I noted here yesterday that the bar [...]