Lowest ever marriage and birth rates show Ireland is on the wrong course says new Iona paper


Plunging marriage and birth rates show Ireland is now on the wrong course in very important ways, a new paper…

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By David Quinn

The other night RTE air once again aired its documentary about the Housewife of the Year competition, which was a rather quaint, twee contest that ran from 1967 until 1995. But it was also extremely popular for many years and...

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The Department of Education asked all interested parties to make submissions to a new ‘National Conversation on Education’ launched recently. The ‘conservation’ is described by the Department of Education as a “once in a generation opportunity for children, young people,...

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Why are fertility rates falling so fast in so much of the world at the same time? This is the huge question considered in an extremely important new paper by academics Melissa Kearney and Phillip Levine. Perhaps the main cause is...

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In Canada in 2024, an astonishing total of 16,499 people died by euthanasia, according to the latest official report. It means the number dying in this way has trebled in just five years. Under Canada’s very liberal ‘assisted dying’ law, a...

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Marriage is in very poor shape in Britain, a fact very starkly revealed in a new report from the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ). The reports points to a long-term and historically unprecedented decline in marriage across the country. In...

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France has just announced it will be sending a letter to all 29-year-olds outlining their chances of having a child and how the State can provide incentives and assistance to do so. France, like Ireland, has a fertility rate far...

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Vatican calls for end to surrogacy ‘in all its forms’


The Holy See has called for the complete eradication of surrogacy to protect women and children from exploitation. An envoy told a UN panel the practice risks reducing children to “commodified…

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Pope John Paul II’s Gospel of Life at 30 – A talk by Maria Steen

On Saturday May 3, 2025, Maria Steen (pictured) delivered a talk called “Evangelium Vitae at 30 – Pope John Paul…

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