Tag: Ireland
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Year of prayer planned to deal with Ireland’s chronic shortage of Catholic priests
“Take the Risk for Christ” is the name of an initiative that’s scheduled to begin on April 30. In a pastoral letter released for Lent, Bishop Paul Dempsey, above, of the Diocese of Achonry, warned that the diocese had not had any new priests for a decade—and has no seminarians currently in formation. Dempsey wrote:…
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Irish Pastafarian, rejected as a Defence Forces chaplain, wins religious discrimination case
Images via YouTube & Etsy AN ordained minister for the Congergational Church of the Flying Monster, “pasta” John Hamill, above, suffered discrimination at the hands of the Irish Defence Forces, the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) ruled this week. Hammill, who said in an Atheist Ireland lecture delivered at Manooth University in Co Kildare that his…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 