The final paragraph of Resolution 8A at the General Synod in Dublin this week is the most nasty of all. For it is the one that will legitimise witch-hunts against gay clergy; it is the one that will allow gay people to be excluded from Holy Communion; and it demeans the relationships of remarried divorcees. Continue reading LGBT Churchpeople still not being listened to: #8aNoWay @churchofireland
The long wait is over, no Northern Ireland town will be granted city status by Her Majesty in this the Diamond Jubilee Year. However, the Province will have another Lord Mayor. No longer will we be able to refer to the Lord Mayor and mean The Rt Hon the Lord Mayor of Belfast. Armagh has a long and distinguished history as the ecclesiastical capital of the island of Ireland. Both the Church of Ireland and the Catholic Church have an Archbishop there. His Grace The Lord Primate of All Ireland, The Most Reverend Alan Harper is the Church of Ireland … Continue reading Armagh wins in Diamond Jubilee competition
Updated on 13 March 2011 – thanks to Conor Prendergast
Last night, whilst most of Northern Ireland’s political bloggers were finding out about the stars of the Slugger Awards in the Cathedral Quarter of the city, some 50 or 60 people were observing UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects), aliens, planets, and stars in the Queen’s Quarter.
There was, however, some connexion between what was happening in Hill Street and in Elmwood Avenue. Three of the four of us that had been involved with the Hammering Out of the Slugger Awards were actually in one location and not the other. Guess which three and in which location we were to be found. Continue reading “UFOs observed in Queen’s Quarter”
As the last hours of the year of our Salvation 2009 are drawing the year to a close, it has been announced that His Eminence Cahal, Cardinal Daly, former Lord Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, has died in hospital in Belfast surrounded by his family and friends. Continue reading “the passing of 2009 – the passing of Cahal, Cardinal Daly”
As news is breaking that Ireland’s most senior Cardinal is seriously ill in hospital, let us pray that His Eminence Cahal, Cardinal Daly gets well soon. His Eminence, formerly Lord Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All-Ireland (having been translated there in 1990 from Down & Connor, and to there from Ardagh and Clonmacnoise in 1982 where he would have known the Longford Cathedral now gutted) retired in 1996 and was succeeded by His Eminence Seán, Cardinal Brady. Our Lady, Queen of Ireland, pray for him. St Patrick, Patron of Ireland, pray for him. St Malachy of Armagh, pray for … Continue reading Pray for Ireland’s senior Cardinal
In the City of Armagh today, the Spring Youth Project came together with The HIV Support Centre, Northern Ireland’s leading HIV/AIDS charity, and Armagh City and District Council to show what the 14-16 year olds had learnt in recent HIV awareness training. Continue reading 2 people in NI diagnosed every week with HIV: what we must do to stop this…
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