Bishop Kevin Doran, Bishop of Elphin and Chair of the Council for Life of the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference has welcomed the publication of “Samaritanus bonus” (The Good Shepherd), a newly published letter by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith...
Summary The Catholic Bishops of Northern Ireland wish to make clear that the new abortion law established under the provisions of the Northern Ireland Act 2019, is an unjust law. As a consequence, no one is obliged in conscience to cooperate with any action permitted...
It is twenty years this month since the Stormont Assembly assumed the full powers devolved to it. The damaging consequences of the prolonged, ongoing failure to restore the institutions of the Agreement are becoming increasingly clear, especially their impact on the...
At midnight last night, 21 October, all explicit protection for the unborn child up to 28 weeks of pregnancy was removed in Northern Ireland, leading to potentially one of the most liberal and unregulated abortion regimes in the world. This is a tragic day for the...
At this critical moment in our history, it is vitally important that political leaders in Northern Ireland face up to their responsibility to protect life, especially the life of the most vulnerable, such as unborn babies in the womb and their mothers. I appeal to...
Following the Autumn General Meeting of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference which was held this week in Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth, the following statement is being published by the Bishops of Ireland ahead of the annual ‘Day for Life’ which takes place in...
The first meeting of the Council for Life, which is an initiative of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference, took place in Columba Centre, Maynooth, on Monday 16 September 2019. The objective of the Council for Life is to promote the Church’s teaching on the dignity...
Reflecting on the current Dáil debate on the abortion bill bishops said, “We are dismayed that, for the most part, the voices of those who voted against abortion in May’s referendum have been ignored. Even what many people would have deemed to have be very reasonable...
We should not be afraid to hold and teach our sincerely held Christian convictions about, for example, the dignity of the person and the sacredness of all human life from the first moment of conception. In post-referendum Ireland, it remains as important as ever to...
Pope calls for a firm stand against 'shameful crime' of human trafficking - read here. Joint statement from the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference and Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans (ACRATH) - read here. US Conference of Catholic...