Newry’s Marianvale mother and baby home: ‘We thought it would be OK because the Church was running it. We were very naïve...’
A powerful new play written by Caitriona Cunningham, a survivor of the Marianvale mother and baby home in Newry, opens this ...
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Post-Dobbs, Catholic maternity homes provide critical support for moms in need
"If you want to save babies, you have to love their mothers. That's what maternity homes do; that's what pregnancy centers do ...
Tragedy struck for Catholic newlyweds. Months later, a miracle?
Nate’s mom, Heather Kuhlman, 52, couldn’t — wouldn’t — believe her only child was gone. Heather grew up in the Catholic ...
The Catholic Spirit3d
In spirit of giving back to community, Olympian visits Catholic center for moms, children
Thea LaFond-Gadson took home the gold in the women's triple jump during the Paris Olympics this past summer. LaFond-Gadson, ...
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Tuam babies: Excavation of children's mass grave to begin in 2019
The Catholic-run institution housed unmarried mothers and babies from 1925 to 1961 and had high infant mortality. Church 'must address shame of Tuam' Human remains found at Tuam site Field of ...
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Tuam babies: Remains of children to be exhumed from mass grave
The Catholic-run institution housed unmarried mothers and babies from 1925 to 1961 and had high infant mortality. There was an outcry last year when tests revealed "significant quantities" of ...
Childless women have long played key roles in Catholic church
Inspired by their example, the American widow and Catholic convert Elizabeth Ann ... were secretly buried at the Bon Secours ...
Identity crisis: Has self-pursuit inhibited women from having children?
Would I be a better scholar if I didn’t have children? For sure. Honestly, I mean, I used to work all the time before I had ...
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Abortion amendment on Florida ballot ‘brutal and dangerous,’ physician says
In an interview with “EWTN News Nightly” anchor Tracy Sabol, Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie discussed Amendment 4 and its ...
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Stolen review: Powerful and unflinching documentary on the mother and baby homes
The horrors of the mother and baby homes were so unspeakable, and the shame they brought on the Catholic Church and the Irish State so unforgivable, that telling their story poses an obvious ...
‘Ferocious violence’ accompanied ‘shocking’ levels of abuse at Ireland’s religious-run schools, report finds
Nearly 2,400 allegations of sexual abuse across hundreds of Ireland’s religious-run schools have been documented in a new ...
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A baby's murder opened a dark chapter in Ireland that still hasn't been closed
The last mother and baby home only shut its doors in 1996 ... a lecturer at University College Dublin, the Catholic leader’s teachings that contraception was immoral, divorce was unconceivable ...