A new briefing note from The Iona Institute has found that over the past 10 years, the number of baptisms…
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The stereotype suggests the housewives are an unhappy bunch. Think of the old hit TV series, ‘Desperate Housewives’. But a new study paints a different picture. Stay-at-home mothers are less likely to suffer from depression or suicidal thoughts, and their...
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Last week The Iona Institute published a widely covered briefing note called ‘Baptism Trends in Ireland’. What grabbed the headlines was the dramatic finding that the number of Catholic baptisms has fallen by 30pc in the last ten years. But...
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An important new study explores the causes of falling birth rates and unsurprisingly finds multiple causes but with the decline of marriage and intimate relationships playing a big part. The author, Tomáš Sobotka, is deputy director of the Vienna Institute...
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In computer game parlance there are ‘player characters’ and ‘non-player-characters’. The former are controlled by the humans playing the game, and the latter by the computer itself. The NPCs, in other words, do not control themselves. The terminology easily translates...
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In 2025, there were 1.35 million more deaths than births in the EU. Despite this, the population has increased slightly but that is only because of immigration. That is according to the latest annual demographics report from the EU’s official...
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A senior German politician has been forced to resign after entering into a commercial surrogacy arrangement in the United States. In Ireland, he would probably be given a soft interview on The Late Late Show for doing the same thing,...
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Three Catholic families have filed a lawsuit challenging the eligibility requirements of the US State of Georgia’s school scholarship program, claiming the rules violate their religious freedom. Passed in 2024,…
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On Saturday May 3, 2025, Maria Steen (pictured) delivered a talk called “Evangelium Vitae at 30 – Pope John Paul…
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