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From betrayal to benediction: three cities, two paintings and the one and only Caravaggio

April 23, 2024

The National Gallery in London is celebrating its bicentenary by lending twelve of its most famous paintings to various museums and galleries throughout the United Kingdom. One beneficiary is the Ulster Museum in Belfast, which starting on 10 May will showcase The Supper at Emmaus, a masterpiece by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. At the same

Dublin archbishop calls residential zoning of Church buildings ‘extraordinary attack on Catholic faith’

February 24, 2023

The Archbishop of Dublin, Dermot Farrell, has criticised the inclusion of Church buildings and land under a new residential zoning land tax which is being proposed by Dublin City Council. Speaking to the Irish Independent, the Archbishop described the move as “an extraordinary attack on the Catholic faith”. But is this really the case?

Ireland’s proposed ‘hate speech’ laws will lead to the criminalisation of religious beliefs and Church teaching

November 02, 2022

The new proposed law in Ireland will criminalise Catholics for their beliefs, writes Dubhaltach O Reachtnin Last week in Ireland proposed legislation was put forward to create a new crime under Irish law: “hate speech”. Under the new law, “a person shall be guilty of an offence if “(a) the person— (i) communicates material to the