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Faith of the future - Christian Rick Santorum may represent their best chance (IrishCentral)

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 05:30:08 PDT

Rick Santorum, yesterday or tomorrow’s man?A headline in this past Sunday’s New York Times screamed “Divided by God” The article, by Op-Ed columnist Ross Douthat, argued that it is “tough to pull together as a nation” with all of the religious diversity and tension out thereThis is understandable Archbishop Dolan is out there butting heads with the Obama administration, while Rick Santorum continues his culture wars crusade READ MORE

Family claims TV program also libeled Christian Brother on abuse issues (IrishCentral)

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 04:52:08 PST

By: JAMES O'SHEA

The family of another religious person, a Christian Brother named Gerard Dillon, has claimed that he too was defamed and libeled by the same Irish television program that paid out a record libel judgement to Father Kevin Reynolds. Father Reynolds, now a parish priest in Galway, was wrongly accused of raping a Kenyan teenager and making her pregnant. A DNA test proved he was not the father.

Prayers for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi from the most Christian man I know (IrishCentral)

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:30:25 PDT

Colonel Muammar GaddafiNot a great deal happens in east Donegal by and large, but one of the more bizarre stories of last week happened a couple of miles down the road from meAt Sunday Mass in Raphoe last week Fr Dinny McGettigan, in addition to praying for the recent dead, also prayed for Colonel Gadaffi It raised a few eyebrows elsewhere in Ireland, and indeed beyond, but it didn’t surprise me at all, because I’ve known Fr Dinny for years -----------------------READ MORE:More news about the Catholic Church in Ireland from IrishCentral Ryanair cabin crew strip off for annual charity calendar - PHOTOS & VIDEO Gossip Girl Hannah: How to look like an American in Ireland ---------------------In fact, he was my school chaplain at Deele College in Raphoe for five years READ MORE

Let's avoid 'Mass' lunacy on Christmas (IrishCentral)

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:30:17 PST

If a "friend" had betrayed you, lied to you, committed heinous crimes against you, your relatives or your friends, or covered up those crimes -- would you happily march into his home for Christmas dinner with gifts for him in hand?Yes? Then you'd be an idiot, of courseBut that is exactly what Catholics in Ireland will likely do when they go to their churches for Christmas MassKiss their solid-gold rings? Kiss my arse!The child abuse and sex abuse and its cover-up by higher-ups, whose horrid details are fast emerging, is now known to be an atrocity that went on for DECADES, and which was hardly the work of a "handful" of sick clerics or well-intentioned bishops It was hateful, criminal, systematic, and long-standing READ MORE