Pro-life voters must be aware of the position of political parties and individual politicians on abortion as Ireland’s abortion laws may well rest on the outcome of the coming election, Bishop Kevin Doran has said. In the course of an interview on Newstalk Radio’s Pat Kenny Show, the Bishop of Elphin pointed out that “many of...
A support group for parents who receive poor pre-natal prognoses for their babies (so-called ‘fatal foetal abnormalities’) has criticised a call made by a leading physician at a maternity hospital for abortion to be made available in such circumstances. In a statement responding to comments on abortion made by Professor Fergal Malone, the new Master of...
Archbishop Eamon Martin has said that claims of many parents feeling under pressure to baptise their children to gain school places when a school is oversubscribed is “overstated”. Speaking during an interview on RTÉ Radio’s Countrywide programme at the weekend, the Primate of All Ireland said that, while there may be examples of parents baptising their...
