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The accepted norm in the Irish Church was that its priesthood was celibate and chaste, and homosexuality was both a sin and a crime. [8] The Church forbade its members (the "faithful") to use artificial contraception, campaigned strongly against laws allowing abortion and divorce, and publicly disapproved of unmarried cohabiting couples and illegitimacy.
Eamonn Casey (24 April 1927 – 13 March 2017) was an Irish Catholic priest who served as bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh in Ireland from 1976 to 1992. His resignation in 1992, after it was revealed he had had an affair with an American woman, Annie Murphy, was a significant event in the history of the Irish Catholic Church.
Also instances recorded during Irish immigration to Great Britain, North America, and Australia are notable. Anti-Irish sentiment can include internal conflict dealing with social, racial and cultural discrimination within Ireland itself. Sectarianism and cultural, religious or political conflicts are referred to as the Troubles in Northern ...
The Bill was lost; the Irish bishops had declared that they could not accept the Bill "without incurring the guilt of schism". A few days after, at a meeting of the Irish Catholic Board in Dublin, Daniel O'Connell proposed that their thanks be sent to the bishops. Some of the laity, who were in agreement with the English Catholics, opposed the ...
O'Connor, who was raised Catholic, also criticised the Catholic Church for its positions on birth control [7] and divorce, [8] and in 1992 forced her way into the Dáil Éireann (Irish parliament) to speak to Taoiseach (prime minister) Albert Reynolds regarding the X Case, in which a 14-year old rape victim sought an abortion.
At the Vatican, a respectful dialogue about reforming the church; in the U.S., a high-profile display of old-school church power. Among rank-and-file American Catholics, Francis is enormously ...
Image credits: Gript The progressive family, labeled “B,” is depicted as culturally diverse, with a white-skinned mother and a dark-skinned father taking pictures in front of the Roman ...
Virginia Tighe, who was given the pseudonym "Ruth Simmons" Bridey Murphy (December 20, 1798-1864) is a purported 19th-century Irishwoman whom U.S. housewife Virginia Tighe (April 27, 1923 – July 12, 1995) claimed to be in a past life.