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  The “commodification” of third level education has been criticised by Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Dermot Farrell. Under “pressure to be relevant, universities sometimes lose sight of what led to their foundation and of what their authentic mission consists,” he said. Speaking on Monday morning via video link at an ecumenical service of fellows and scholars at Trinity College, Dublin, Archbishop Farrell commented “many of you will have seen first-hand the threat to languages – ancient and modern, to classics and to the academic study of religion in such an e...

Cavan priest says he will not pay fine for saying Mass in breach of restrictions 04/03/2021 at 7:38 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White Parish priest Fr PJ Hughes says gardaí blocked roads to church By Patsy McGarry, Marie O’Halloran, Irish Times, March 29, 2021 A parish priest in Co Cavan has accused gardaí of harassing him and churchgoers on Sunday as he went to celebrate Mass in breach of pandemic restrictions which do not allow public worship. Fr PJ Hughes, parish priest of Mullahoran and Loughduff in Co Cavan, has already received a €500 fine following a Sunday Mass he celebrated...

Clerics call on Catholics to ask their elected representatives to reject legislation entirely

RTÉ programme includes details of gynaecologist’s involvement in four cases

  A Jesuit priest abused boys at Belvedere College in Dublin’s city centre when he taught there in the 1970s, the congregation has confirmed, two years after being confronted by a former victim about the secrecy surrounding the case. Fr Joseph Marmion “abused boys sexually, emotionally and physically while he was on the teaching staff at Belvedere College in the 1970s”, the Jesuits said in a statement. Tuesday’s statement followed contact with the Jesuits in early 2019 by a former pupil of Belvedere College. A student at the College in the 1970s, at the age of 13 he was s...