Ireland saw another drop in the number of suicides last year, but the country still has one of the highest levels of youth suicide in Europe, although the suicide rate as a whole is low by European standards. The National Office for Suicide Prevention said the decline was welcome but added that more work needed...
Lone-parent welfare benefits in Ireland are too high, and do too little to improve the wellbeing of children, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). A new report by the OECD says that that Ireland, along with a number of other countries, was spending large amounts on payments to single parents last...
Aggressive secularism is a major threat to traditional British society, one of the Church of England’s most outspoken bishops has warned as he steps down. The Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, who ends his time as Bishop of Rochester next week, has urged his church to speak out more to preserve the country’s Christian heritage and...
New York’s Catholic Bishops have been given the go-ahead to defend traditional marriage in court by the state’s highest court. The case will examine whether New York state should recognise out-of-state same-sex marriages which have been lawfully contracted in other states. The brief on behalf of the Bishops argues that recognition of same-sex marriages, which...
Two pharmacists prosecuted by the US state of Illinois for conscientiously objecting to distributing abortifacient contraceptives obtained a court ruling in their favour last Friday. The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) is representing the pharmacists, Luke VanderBleek and Glenn Kosirog, in the case of Morr-Fitz, Inc. v. Blagojevich. The lawsuit was launched to...
Married cancer patients live longer than those who are divorced, separated or never married, according to a new study. The findings have been blamed on the damage done to the body’s immune system by the stress caused by marital breakdown. Dr Gwen Sprehn, of Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, drew the results from...
A leading Tory has warned that family breakdown and the devaluation of marriage has led to a generation of children with no concept of right and wrong. Youngsters have no “vestige of stability” in their lives and are exposed to drugs and alcohol at a “ludicrously young age”, according to Chris Grayling, the shadow home...
Government proposals to grant same-sex couples marriage-like rights constitute “an alarming attack on the fundamental principle of freedom of religion and conscience”, according to the Primate of All Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady. Speaking in Limerick in St John’s Cathedral, he said the new legislation makes it a crime for a Registrar of Marriage to decline...
Government proposals to grant same-sex couples marriage-like rights constitute “an alarming attack on the fundamental principle of freedom of religion and conscience”, according to the Primate of All Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady. Speaking in Limerick in St John’s Cathedral, he said the new legislation makes it a crime for a Registrar of Marriage to...
The Commission on Taxation in a upcoming report will recommend taxing Child Benefit payments according to The Irish Independent. However, it says a tax credit should be given to lower-income families to compensate them for this. It has already been reported that the Government is considering taxing Child Benefit and concerns have already been raised...
