by BDrumm | Jan 26, 2018 | News, Pastoral Messages
The Gift of Life – A Shared Responsibility Pastoral Message of Bishop Kevin Doran, Elphin The Mystery of Life In the Summer of 2016, I noticed a pair of swans with their five recently hatched cygnets on the Garavogue river. By the following Spring, they were almost...
by BDrumm | Oct 27, 2017 | News, Press releases
The Presidents of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales & The Bishops’ Conference of Scotland have released a joint Statement on Abortion to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Royal Assent of the Abortion Act which takes place on Friday 27th...
by BDrumm | Oct 21, 2017 | News, Press releases
On Friday 20 October 2017, a conference was held in Athlone entitled ‘Abortion, Disability and the Law’. The conference was jointly hosted by the Anscombe Bioethics Centre and the Consultative Group on Bioethics of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference. Papers were...
by BDrumm | Oct 2, 2017 | News, Press releases
Promotion of a culture which protects life and respects women’ 12.00pm Mass, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Sligo “Today I am asking people throughout our diocese, even if it has not been your practice up to now, to consider committing to spend one hour each...
by BDrumm | Oct 1, 2017 | News, Pastoral Messages
Day for Life is celebrated annually by the Catholic Church in Ireland, Scotland and England and Wales. It is a day dedicated to celebrating and upholding the dignity of human life from conception to natural death. This year’s Day for Life will be celebrated in Ireland...
