This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial Pope says Catholic education is evangelisation Pope Francis has said that Catholic education is evangelisation. This confirms again what Atheist Ireland has been saying...
Pope Francis has confirmed that Catholic education is evangelisation, and has compared not speaking the truth about God in education to burning books, during a private reception in the Vatican on 22 April for educators including from Mary Immaculate College in Limerick. He also told...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial Ireland misleads UN about nondenominational schools Atheist Ireland raised several issues with the UN Human Rights Committee who questioned Ireland about this week under...
Atheist Ireland had this letter published in the Irish Times this week following the UN Human Rights Committee questioning Ireland under International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Minister Roderic O’Gorman told the UN Human Rights Committee this week that Ireland aims to have 400...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial The UN will question Ireland this week The United Nations Human Rights Committee will be examining Ireland’s human rights record this Monday and Tuesday...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial Atheist Ireland and the United Nations The United Nations Human Rights Committee is questioning Ireland in July about our human rights record under the...
The United Nations Human Rights Committee is questioning Ireland in July about our human rights record under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, or ICCPR. Atheist Ireland has made the following submission about Freedom of Conscience, Religion, and Belief. You can also read...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial Conditions on State funding of Irish schools Irish parents have more rights in relation to the education of their children under the Irish Constitution...
With the attitude of the Catholic bishops over divesting schools, you could be forgiven for believing that the Irish Constitution explicitly sanctioned the funding of Catholic-run schools and without any conditions. The reasons that there are so many Catholic schools is because of religious privilege...
This week’s Secular Sunday, To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial Public Funds and Catholic Bishops Since last year Atheist Ireland has been raising the issue of the misuse of public funds in Irish schools...