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🇮🇪 🚨 Asylum Arrivals for week ending 3rd/May/26. Somalis top list 🇸🇴 Top 10 (Total): 🇳🇬 Nigeria - 8,212 🇸🇴 Somalia - 3,164 🇵🇰 Pakistan -2,631 🇯🇴 Jordan - 2,205 🇧🇩 Bangladesh - 2,065 🇩🇿 Algeria - 1,851 🇬🇪 Georgia -1,763 🇦🇫 Afghanistan - 1,685 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe - 1,679 🇿🇦 SA - 790

Absolutely bizarre that the following Parliamentary Question was ruled out of order:

Remember Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman who spent 8 years on death row after being accused of “blasphemy” for drinking water from a Muslim’s cup. Asia was working in the fields with her Muslim coworkers. She got thirsty and went to fetch water from the well, where she took a drink with an old metal cup she had found. That’s all it took. Christians are considered dirty and impure in Islam, and she was accused of attempting to contaminate the Muslims’ water just by drinking from their cup. She was sentenced to death by hanging. The governor of her province voiced opposition to the verdict and was assassinated by his own bodyguard. When she was finally acquitted in 2018 due to international pressure, tens of thousands of Muslims rioted, demanding her immediate execution. A local poll found that 10 MILLION Pakistanis would personally kill her if given the chance. Just for drinking water from a Muslim’s cup. Her lawyer had to flee the country. And after months in hiding, she was finally able to escape Pakistan and received asylum in Canada. This is Pakistan, where non-Muslims live under the constant threat of death. The more I learn about this country, the more it just feels like ISIS with a formal government.

This should be the model for Ireland. I would also limit from having a grandparent born on the island, to a parent born in the republic.

Zwischen der Dormitio (linke Mauer) und Abendmahlssaal (rechte Mauer): Kann nicht mehr zählen, wie oft mich genau dort jüdische Extremisten schon beschimpft, bespuckt und angegriffen haben. Sich als Mann an einer Ordensfrau zu vergreifen, hat aber eine neue abgründigere Qualität!

@pluant The Liturgy of the Hours (in Latin) is permanently unavailable from Liberia Editrice Vaticana. Speaks volumes.

Fun fact: at present, the only Latin liturgical books available at the Vatican online bookstore for the “unique form of the Roman Rite” = Vol II of the Liturgia Horarum and the Rite of Exorcism. By all means, show us your enthusiasm, Uncle Arthur!

Time for the Antigone Spring Books Give-away! 40+ books and pamphlets on offer worldwide. Just repost this message and follow us, and on Sunday 3 names will be drawn. 1st chooses 20 things, 2nd 12, 3rd gets the rest. We'll add details of the items over coming days. Good luck all!

After the attack on the Monastery of Anba Bishoy a few days ago,carried out at night and involving an attempted land seizure,we are now faced with a shocking scene that cannot be justified. Has it really come to the point where a monk is run over by a bulldozer? What kind of brutality is this? What kind of injustice is being committed against people who chose a life of seclusion, prayer, and quiet labor? The monks of Deir El-Malak in Fayoum have never been a burden on anyone. For more than 20 years, they have cultivated barren land in the heart of the desert, bringing it to life through their own hard work. They revived what was once dead and opened doors of charity to the poor and to workers. They asked for nothing for themselves, only to be left in peace to continue what they started. Instead of rewarding hands that build and cultivate, they are met with force, demolition, and uprooting? Olive trees that witnessed years of labor are being removed? Is this the message we send to anyone trying to develop and reclaim desert land? We appeal to President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi for urgent intervention to stop this painful situation, hold the perpetrators accountable, bring justice to the monks, and protect this monastery, which represents a humanitarian effort before it is a place of worship. Injustice does not last… and the voice of truth must not be silenced. First photo of the attack of today on Deir EL Malak Second video of the attack on Anba Bishoy's monastery 3 days ago. #Deir_ElMalak #Fayoum #DistressCall #Justice #CopticOrthodox

Helen Roseveare, a missionary who faced intense suffering and persecution during her 20 years of service in the Congo, shares one of the times that she saw God answer prayer in a most unexpected way: "I went to have prayers with our orphanage children as I did every day, and any of the children wanted gathered around me for prayer time, and I'd give them different things to pray about. And this particular day, I told the children of this tiny baby and asked them to pray for the nurses that they would stay awake all night to keep that baby warm. If the baby got cold, it would die. I mentioned that the baby had a 2-year-old sister who was crying because her mommy had died. I mentioned the burst hot water bottle. During prayer time, different children prayed for different things, and then one little 10-year-old girl, Ruth, she prayed in the usual blunt way of our African children, 'Please, God, send us a hot water bottle. Now, God, it'll be no good tomorrow. Send it this afternoon. Now, if it comes tomorrow, the baby will be dead.' I'm sort of swallowing hard, and she said, 'While you're about it, God, would you send a dolly for the little 2-year-old sister, so she'll know that Jesus really loves her?' And that afternoon, the parcel came. It was the first parcel I ever, I've been out there four years, I'd never had a parcel from home. And despite the fact I live on the equator, somebody packing that parcel had been prompted by God to put in a hot water bottle, and a child from my Bible class at home had put in a dolly for a little girl. And it came that afternoon in answer to a 10 year-old child's prayer, and the amazing thing was, you know, that parcel had been on the way five months to get to us. It had left England in July, and it came that afternoon, cause a child prayed."

It is absolutely heart-wrenching to read about the final moments of Matthew Healy. An 88-year-old gentleman. He was kind, polite, and gentle, he deserved to leave this world surrounded by love and peace, not in a scene of "frenzied" and "horrific" violence. ​The failure here is staggering. As noted by the judge, the decision by Mercy University Hospital to place a young man in a state of severe mental delirium on a general ward with frail, elderly patients was "unwise" at the very least. Mr. Healy was in a completely helpless position, and he deserved to be kept safe in a place of care. ​No family should have to hear that their loved one suffered such a terrifying ordeal. We send our sincerest condolences to the Healy family in their grief and their call for accountability. ​Rest in peace, Matthew Healy. You deserved so much better. ​#MercyHospital #Cork #MatthewHealy independent.ie/irish-news/cou…

Life expectancy measures wealth and demographics, not health infrastructure which is in here. Ireland has the highest bed occupancy in the OECD, 43% fewer beds than the EU average, 900,000 on waiting lists, and 75% of GP lists closed to new patients. Education attainment is high yes, but 35,000 of those graduates emigrated last year because they can't afford to live here. The graph measures what the state builds and delivers, not outcomes that succeed despite it.

@Actualidad_Pol @grok is this true?

🇮🇹 🏳️‍🌈 Italia PROHÍBE simbología LGTBI en TODAS sus escuelas públicas.

@PetriOP @FrHarrison I believe the student in question is Fr Vincent Twomey, Professor Emeritus of Moral Theology at Pontifical University at Maynooth, Ireland.

I don’t remember who said/wrote it, but he’s one of Ratzinger’s doctoral students and he wanted to go back and re-work some of the early chapters of his dissertation. Ratzinger wouldn’t let him. He told him, “You must have courage to live with the imperfect” (a true statement if ever there was one)

When Ratzinger decided to rip out 2/3 of his Habilitationsschrift so that he could submit the final third, he became the definition of "the best thesis is the completed thesis."

Yesterday marked a deeply meaningful turning point in my life: my final day as a Protestant. After completing a year in RCIA, my children and I will be received into the Catholic Church this evening. The journey began through what felt like divine intervention, sparked by a thoughtful conversation with a wonderful priest at the Holy Well in Tara - an encounter that stayed with me and set so much in motion. I was introduced to him through my now Godmother, who recognised me in a shop from an interview I had just given. Truly, God works in mysterious ways. In many ways, it feels like a path that has been quietly forming for a long time. After more than two decades living in a Catholic country, with my children in Catholic schools and my own involvement in supporting the Catholic ethos in education, this step has grown naturally out of lived experience as much as personal reflection. Today - being baptised alongside my two children, and sharing the joy of my daughter’s First Holy Communion, makes this moment especially profound and deeply personal. Grateful for the journey, and for what lies ahead.

@EamonnClark @MethodMinistry Mister @MethodMinistry seems not to believe in the Resurrection and the fact that Christ's Blood is united to his Glorious Body in Heaven.

@MethodMinistry Utraquism alert

Rome offers a half-Eucharist by withholding the wine. Communicants must receive both kinds for it to be apostolic.

Poland has cut VAT on fuel from 23% to 8%. #FuelProtest 🇮🇪 notesfrompoland.com/2026/03/26/pol…

"Shando Alfa, a 27-year-old Somali national, who is of no fixed abode, was refused bail on Monday." Leo Varadkar, Micheal Martin, Simon Harris did this to Ireland.

I'm sure this buck knows lots about macro-economics but I didn't know political scientist were also experts in cosmology.

@EamonnClark The same Fr Ledochowski that wanted the Society to be exempted from having to commit to the 24 Thomistic Theses.

An excerpt from Pius XI's "secret encyclical" (it was supposed to be published, but he died shortly before he was to promulgate it)... It's on "The Jews" and anti-semitism. Gasp! The Superior General of the Jesuits, Fr. Ledochowski, hid it from the Pope to slow down its publication. web.archive.org/web/2013101005… As a scholar quite familiar with Pius XI and his work, upon completion of my doctorate focusing on his social teaching, I will acquire the full text and go through it in an episode on my upcoming moral theology show. Should be interesting.

This morning, I spoke with @Pontifex Pope Leo XIV to exchange greetings for the Passover and Easter holidays. During our call, we discussed the war with Iran, including the ongoing threat of missile attacks by the Iranian regime and its terror proxies against people of all faiths in the region. I recalled the recent Iranian missile attacks on Jerusalem that fell in the area of sites holy to Christians, Muslims, and Jews. The people of Iran also deserve a better future free from this dangerous and violent regime of terror. We also spoke about the situation in Lebanon, including the importance of the safety and security of Christian communities on both sides of the border. I emphasized that the Hezbollah terror organization cannot be allowed to continue threatening both the people of Israel and Lebanon, who both deserve a future of peace and stability. I expressed to Pope Leo XIV the great importance of the State of Israel's relationship with the Holy See, the Catholic Church, and Christians around the world. I also underscored the importance of the cooperation of all world and religious leaders in the crucial fight against antisemitism. I extended my warmest wishes for the Easter holiday to Christian communities across the Middle East and around the world. We expressed our shared hope for a more peaceful future for people of all faiths across the world free from the threat of violence and bloodshed.