# Religion
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Adoption
Oklahoma passes law allowing adoption agencies deny children to LGBT families on religious grounds
4 May 2018
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Voices
Opinion: 'Religious instruction and worship should take place outside core school hours'
David Graham
5 Apr 2018
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Good Friday
Devotees nail themselves to crosses at annual Good Friday ceremony in Philippines
30 Mar 2018
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rise in humanism
Number of Roman Catholic marriages reducing but it's still the most popular type of ceremony
29 Mar 2018
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Pope Benedict
Vatican communications chief quits over row about letter written by retired pope
21 Mar 2018
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Voices
Retirement: 'For the first time in nearly forty years I could openly admit that I didn't believe in God'
Peter Gunning
21 Mar 2018
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Mary McAleese
Vast majority of people agree that Catholic Church is 'empire of misogyny'
12 Mar 2018
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Abuse
Mary McAleese says her brother was 'seriously, physically, sadistically abused by Malachy Finnegan'
12 Mar 2018
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empire of misogyny
Diarmuid Martin says Mary McAleese's criticism of the Church was 'brutally stark'
9 Mar 2018
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Mary McAleese
'Male celibates advise the Pope on what women really want, that is ludicrous'
8 Mar 2018
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namesake
'I haven't taken a senior player' - Martin O'Neill upset with Michael for bringing religion into allegiance debate
8 Mar 2018
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misogyny
Mary McAleese says it's 'pure codology' that women can't become priests
8 Mar 2018
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thanks be to god
Mass-goers told there is 'no obligation' to attend religious services today
4 Mar 2018
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RIP
Tributes paid to influential US preacher Billy Graham who has died at age 99
21 Feb 2018
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losing my religion
Atheist Ireland calls for bibles to be removed from referendum polling stations
13 Jan 2018
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religious orders
Government plans to scrap provision allowing church to appoint teachers and principals
19 Dec 2017
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Discrimination
Man loses case against Irish council's refusal to hold ceremony for Christians killed by IS
15 Dec 2017
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The Meaning of Life
Stephen Fry says he was 'enchanted' to be caught up in blasphemy row
4 Nov 2017
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dramatic sterility
Pope Francis has criticised Europe's low birth rates at a bishops' conference
28 Oct 2017
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Census 2016
At 88.6%, Offaly has the highest percentage of Catholics in Ireland
12 Oct 2017
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Voices
Opinion: 'Debating religious ideas isn't inciting to hatred'
Selina Campbell
8 Oct 2017
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religious freedom
'Contempt for women reaches a new low': Trump administration rolls back free birth control access
7 Oct 2017
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Job application
Man who listed 'standing up against homosexuality' as achievement loses discrimination case
14 Sep 2017
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Church and State
Bishops have 'constructive' meeting with Varadkar and ministers
31 Aug 2017
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Religious Festival
Three days of mourning in Madeira after falling tree kills 13 people
16 Aug 2017
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Madeira
'It happened in the middle of mass': 12 killed and 50 injured by falling tree at religious Portuguese festival
15 Aug 2017
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Knock
'Grandparents are the anchor of many families - but we don't always recognise that'
13 Aug 2017
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the last supper
'The priests are all old men now, and so are we': Heartbreak at Limerick's last male-only Mass
28 Jul 2017
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Workplace Relations
Dublin bakery's refusal to make anti-gay marriage cake 'was not discrimination'
24 Jul 2017
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wafer or wine
Concern from Catholics, but gluten-free communion host IS available in Ireland
13 Jul 2017
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Voices
Opinion: 'Leo is right to welcome people who have socially conservative views'
Larry Donnelly
26 Jun 2017
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mass appeal
Huge growth in numbers attending Irish Christian conference for 'anyone who loves Jesus'
11 Jun 2017
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