Lineamenta outlines a summary of the main points of last October's final report and adds an additional 46 questions which bishops are asked to reflect on.
Growing confusion and error about marriage "will weaken seriously if not totally compromise the Church’s witness” US prelate warns.
Bishop of Limerick reminds conference on marriage and the family that “people need to be accepted in the concrete circumstances of life."
Kildare & Leighlin to produce a definitive set of norms and guidelines on best practice for funeral liturgies by November 2015.
Section 37 of Employment Equality Act is about the balancing of legitimate rights: Fr Michael Drumm in a talk on denominational education.
“In a more equal Church there would be lay people involved in determining the guest list as well as on it,” married couple tell ACI conference.
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin briefs journalists in the Vatican on Saturday, halfway through the Synod discussions.
'Mothers and Fathers Matter' group says legislation 'normalises' situation where a child is deprived of a right to a biological mother and father.
“Today the Church must learn again how to show that the family is a great gift, something good and beautiful."
International marriage experts warn synod delegates that children need marriage and their mothers and fathers to raise them together.
Ireland in breach of international human rights legislation by not having wider access to abortion UN Rapporteur suggests.
Rugby players, Munster's John Hayes, Ulster's Rory Best and Leinster's Sean O'Brien lend support to Embrace FARM ecumenical service.
Chiara Luce Badano died in 1990 and was beatified by Pope Benedict in 2010.
The family is the basic unit of society; if the family falls apart, the whole of society will fall apart.
Church teaching is not realistic, compassionate or life-enhancing: Irish respondents.
Little attempt made to explain Church's teachings on marriage and the family.
"Every state should have to have the right to develop its laws, and protect its culture and traditions."
Parish must always offer a place of welcome for those who no longer find themselves in stable or conventional family situations.
“We gather here this afternoon to reflect and to pray. We gather to reflect on the gift and on the meaning of human life. We pray for the fostering in our society and in our nation of a new culture of life. We gather as disciples of Jesus Christ [...]
Grandparents are the wisdom of a family, Pope Francis states.
Up to 150,000 participate in Family Pilgrimage to the Tomb of St Peter in Rome.
Kildare and Leighlin becomes fifth Irish diocese to restore ancient ministry.
“Successive Governments have betrayed families," Barnardos’ CEO, Fergus Finlay.
The family that prays together, stays together Cardinal Brady highlights.
Primate concerned by under-valuing of the stability and commitment within marriage.
Political leaders urged not to pass laws which disregard the dignity of the person and undermine the fabric of society.
Archbishop Eamon Martin has recorded a powerful and direct appeal on EWTN for the Irish people to choose life and for the faithful to pray that abortion legislation will not be voted in.
In a second recording he asks people to join with him as he prays the Choose Life prayer.
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The Pro Life Campaign said it is disappointed at the result of the Second Stage vote on abortion in the Dáil but welcomed the fact that an initial four Fine Gael TDs voted against the bill.
The Dail the first vote on the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill saw [...]
Cardinal Seán Brady raises legal and Constitutional concerns about the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013
I am conscious that the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill, is entering the final stages of the legislative process in the Oireachtas. In addition to the fundamental ethical concerns already raised by [...]
In her statement on the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013 Second Stage, Minister Lucinda Creighton T.D. yesterday (1st July 2013) said that she never imagined when she stood for election to Dáil Éireann that she would find herself, just two years later, speaking on a Government sponsored Bill [...]
