One in four members of ‘Gen Z’ look set never to have children, a new paper from the Iona Institute…
More
It was encouraging to see RTÉ air the first part of a two-part documentary about Ireland’s looming demographic crisis on Wednesday night. Called “Ireland’s Population Crash“, it was presented by Miriam O’Callaghan who is, of course, one of the country’s...
READ MORE
Best-selling author and Christian convert, Paul Kingsnorth, is one the leading critics of the ways in which technology, led by AI, is altering our lives and even threatening what it means to be human. On Saturday (October 10), he delivered...
READ MORE
As a young priest in his native Albania, Cardinal Ernest Simoni was sentenced to death twice by the communist regime. From 1962 until 1990, he did hard labour for his faith. Not only did he live to tell the tale,...
READ MORE
Is the internet helping to draw young people to the faith? This is the question Catholic convert Mahon McCann asks in his talk delivered at Saturday’s Iona Institute youth conference called ‘God or the Machine?’. Among other things, Mahon describes how it was...
READ MORE
The Department of Education is currently running a sort of Citizens’ Assembly on education called the ‘Convention on Education’. It is supposed to help shape Irish education for decades to come. The most recent session last month featured a panel...
READ MORE
The Joint Committee on Health met again this week to consider a Sinn Féin bill that aims to get rid of the three-day wait for an abortion. Last week, the HSE argued that there was no clinical reason for the...
READ MORE
Thousands of embryos frozen at IVF clinics are being thrown away when couples break up, a study has found. Two-thirds of couples who divorce after having fertility treatment opt for…
More
A new briefing note from The Iona Institute has found that over the past 10 years, the number of baptisms…
More
