Lumen Fidei

How laity should react when Bishops and priests fail to fulfil their mission

9th April 2019 by secretary

José Antonio Ureta was born in Chile in 1951, and is a founding member of ‘Fundación Roma’, which, through its ‘Acción Familia’ campaign, is today one of Chile’s most influential pro-life and pro-family organisations. Mr Ureta is well known to supporters of The Lumen Fidei Institute and to readers of the Catholic Voice newspaper, having addressed several of our conferences. The current presentation was made at our ‘Clarion Call to the Irish Bishops’ conference in the Glenroyal Hotel in Maynooth, … Read More

The Culture of Death!

3rd April 2019 by secretary

In his encyclical, ‘Evangelium Vitae’, Pope St John Paul II famously coined the phrase ‘culture of death’. It is important to re-read these things every now and then to keep them fresh in our minds. “In fact, while the climate of widespread moral uncertainty can in some way be explained by the multiplicity and gravity of today’s social problems, and these can sometimes mitigate the subjective responsibility of individuals, it is no less true that we are confronted by an … Read More

Catholic Church

St. Gregory the Great and his dove

2nd April 2019 by Canon Benjamin Norman

St. Gregory the Great is one of the most remarkable figures in Ecclesiastical History. He had in many respects a tremendous influence on the doctrine, organisation, and discipline of the Catholic Church. The saint was born in Rome about 540 and died the 12th March 604. He was raised in a pious Patrician family, and as a young student so excelled in grammar, rhetoric and dialectic as to be thought foremost in these disciplines in Rome. He very likely studied … Read More

Catholic Church | Pro-Life

40 Days & 40 Nights for Life in Silverstream Priory

2nd April 2019 by John Carlin

John Carlin writes about an important Pro Life prayer vigil which began on Ash Wednesday, 6th March 2019, and continues until Sunday 14th April 2019 – more Adorers are encouraged to sign up using the contact details at the end of this article. “Yes” side knew how to sell a lie.As we all know, abortion is a procedure that intentionally stops the heartbeat of one of our most vulnerable little brothers and sisters through an act of violence. People can … Read More

Resistance Movement

So, You think Ireland is a Democracy?

1st April 2019 by secretary

Many people in Ireland think that they live in a democracy. However, this is largely an illusion and a few simple examples will demonstrate that fact. Democracy is supposed to be a system of government whereby decisions made by the majority of the people are what is used to guide how a particular country, or society, or organisation is governed. This would be a very cumbersome form of government if every decision had to go to a vote, and so … Read More

Catholic Church | Catholic Education | Marriage & Family | Resistance Movement | Youth

The Demise of Catholic Education in Ireland

29th March 2019 by secretary

Dr Eanna Johnson presented his findings on the collapse of Catholic Education in Ireland at The Lumen Fidei Institute’s Spring conference at The Glenroyal Hotel in Maynooth, on 12th March, 2019. We are delighted to make a video of his talk available and we ask you to share this with other Catholic parents in Ireland who wonder whatever happened to the Irish education system. Dr Johnson’s talk looks at a brief time in the history of Catholic Education in Ireland … Read More

Catholic Church | Liturgy

LENT: Prayer, Fasting & Almsgiving

23rd March 2019 by Abbé Hoogerwerf

The greatest success the Evil One, the Father of Lies, has perpetrated in our time is to persuade the world that he does not exist. He is not some socio-psychological construct of the human psyche to represent our shared experience of evil. Rather, the devil is very real and his kingdom seems to be ever growing. The existence of the devil and his minions was not something so swiftly relegated to the realm of the imaginary in the minds of … Read More

LGBT activism | Resistance Movement

The Interesting Case of Caroline Farrow

22nd March 2019 by secretary

A Catholic journalist who appeared on British television with transgender campaigner, Susie Green, was recently contacted by police because she used a male pronoun to refer to Susie Green’s son Jack, who now goes by the name Jackie. Mrs Green, took her son to Thailand when he was fifteen years old and on his sixteenth birthday, he underwent an operation which mutilated his genitals. In Britain, there is a Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003, but there is no corresponding law … Read More

Catholic Church | Liturgy

St Athanasius

22nd March 2019 by Canon Benjamin Norman

St. Athanasius, the great bishop of Alexandria and a Confessor and Doctor of the Church, was born between 296 and 298 in Alexandria, and died the 2nd May 373. He is remembered as “the Father of Orthodoxy;” the greatest champion of Catholic belief on the subject of the Incarnation that the Church has ever known. Gifted with a powerful character and intellect, his childhood education was that common to youths of a better class and included grammar, rhetoric, jurisprudence, and … Read More

Catholic Church | Liturgy

Heaven & Earth are full of Your Glory

22nd March 2019 by Mary Kearns

“Thou standest amid cherubim and seraphim and other exalted spirits of high rank.” Nurturing a sense of the supernatural Spiritual reality in times past, was nurtured by the Catholic environment. While most noticeably in churches, the sense of the supernatural also existed in the minds and hearts of the faithful. It is hard to keep this in mind now when the secular world intrudes into the sacred, as it so often does. Churches, especially the newer buildings, no longer have … Read More

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