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This week in The Irish Catholic: the Vatican looks to Ireland’s missionary monks for lessons in passing on the faith, alongside reflections on eternal life, boarding schools and infant baptism.
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The IC launches a free digital faith formation magazine for Parishes and Schools!
The Beehive is a weekly print and monthly digital magazine faith resource for parishes and schools who are seeking faith formation.
It came as a direct response from this paper to the Synodal listening process, where the majority of Irish Catholics canvassed asked for more adult faith formation in parishes.
Click below to download the first issue.
To be added to the mailing list, email hannah@irishcatholic.ie or renata@irishcatholic.ie.
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The Beehive is a weekly print and monthly digital magazine faith resource for parishes and schools who are seeking faith formation.
It came as a direct response from this paper to the Synodal listening process, where the majority of Irish Catholics canvassed asked for more adult faith formation in parishes.
Click below to download the first issue.
To be added to the mailing list, email hannah@irishcatholic.ie or renata@irishcatholic.ie.
irishcatholic.com/the-beehive-fa…
Mary McAleese has once again spoken about her views on infant baptism. In her recent comments, she claims it breaches the babies' human rights, as they cannot consent to be baptised.
In the editorial below, published in January 2026, we explain why the argument she makes is ultimately a category mistake.
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In the editorial below, published in January 2026, we explain why the argument she makes is ultimately a category mistake.
irishcatholic.com/baptism-consen…
www.irishcatholic.com Baptism, consent, and the strange new calculus of ‘human rights’ - The Irish Catholic Dr Mary McAleese’s Irish Times column recently argues [an argument that she has been making since at least 2018] that infant Baptism “denies babies their human rights” because it enrols them—without... The Synodal Pathway is “offering the Church here little more than a political-type programme”, a senior priest has warned on the eve of its National Assembly in Gormanston.
Read the whole issue at irishcatholic.com.
Read the whole issue at irishcatholic.com.
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