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by bcadmin | Nov 19, 2022 | CAFOD, Church in UK and Ireland, Great Britain, lead, News, SCIAF, UK government, United Kingdom | 0 |
Catholic international aid agencies in the UK say the British government’s announcement that it wouldn’t restore the overseas aid budget target to 0.7 percent of Gross National Income (GNI) is disappointing.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 10, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Ireland, Church in UK and Ireland, DUP, Great Britain, Ireland, News, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Assembly, Sinn Fein, United Kingdom | 0 |
The British government on Wednesday delayed calling a fresh election in Northern Ireland, hoping to buy time to break an impasse over post-Brexit trade rules that put the administration there on ice.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 5, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Ireland, Church in UK and Ireland, DUP, Good Friday Agreement, Great Britain, Ireland, News, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Assembly, Sinn Fein, United Kingdom | 0 |
Northern Ireland elections aimed at restoring the region’s power-sharing government have been delayed until January amid concerns about holding them during the holiday season, the U.K. government said Friday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 5, 2022 | Asylum seekers, Church in UK and Ireland, Great Britain, immigrants and refugees, Jesuit Refugee Service, JRS, lead, News, United Kingdom | 0 |
A leading refugee organization has called the dumping of asylum seekers outside a bus station in London in the dead of night was the “culmination of so much cruelty” resulting from UK government’s “hostile environment” policy towards immigrants.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 3, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in UK and Ireland, News | 0 |
One of the church’s leading experts on safeguarding and clerical sexual abuse has said the exclusion of women from seminary formation has had “extremely harmful consequences,” and this “needs to change.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 3, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Ireland, Church in UK and Ireland, Gay Catholics, Homosexuality, Ireland, Leo Varadkar, LGBTI Catholics, News, Republic of Ireland, Transgender | 0 |
A spokesman for Ireland’s deputy prime minister referred to Pope Francis’ famous line “Who am I to judge?” after a priest said the politician would go to hell if he did not repent for being gay.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 1, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in UK and Ireland, England, G.K. Chesterton, London, News, University of Notre Dame | 0 |
Holy Cross Father John I. Jenkins, president of the University of Notre Dame, led a dedication ceremony Oct. 27 to celebrate the Catholic university’s acquisition of the G.K. Chesterton Collection for its London Global Gateway.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 28, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in UK and Ireland, DUP, News, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Assembly, Sinn Fein, United Kingdom | 0 |
Northern Ireland is headed for an unwanted early election after its deadlocked lawmakers failed Thursday to break a political impasse triggered by Britain’s exit from the European Union.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 28, 2022 | Church in Ireland, Church in UK and Ireland, lead, News, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Assembly, United Kingdom | 0 |
Irish Church leaders called on the UK government to take “urgent action” to tackle the cost-of-living crisis in a meeting with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 21, 2022 | Bishops Conference of England and Wales, Church in England and Wales, Church in UK and Ireland, confession, Great Britain, Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), lead, News, Seal of Confession, sexual abuse of minors, United Kingdom | 0 |
A government-established inquiry into sexual abuse says priests should be legally required to report abuse, even if it means violating the seal of confession.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 21, 2022 | Church in Scotland, Church in UK and Ireland, Gender identity, Great Britain, lead, News, Scotland, Scottish bishops, Scottish Parliament, Transgender, United Kingdom | 0 |
Scotland’s Catholic Church says it is concerned about the Scottish Government’s Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, which will be debated on Oct. 17.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 20, 2022 | Anti-Catholic, Associated Press, Church in Scotland, Church in UK and Ireland, faith and sports, Great Britain, News, Scotland, Soccer, sports, United Kingdom | 0 |
Northern Ireland international Kyle Lafferty was handed a 10-match ban by the Scottish Football Association on Thursday for using a sectarian slur toward a fan.
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