PRESSURE is growing on the Mother and Baby Homes Commission to answer questions surrounding their decision to omit the testimonies of survivors from their report into how women and children in Mother and Baby Homes were treated. “Sorry, what was that?” said one Commission member removing noise-from-survivors cancelling ear buds from their ears. “Listen to… Read more »
‘Flourish’, the relationship and sex education programme developed for junior infants to sixth class age group by the Irish Bishops’ Conference is to describe sex and puberty as a ‘gift from God’ to the 90% of schools still under the auspices of the Catholic Church. But what exactly will the Catholic Church, famed for its… Read more »
WITH dozens of rogue Irish priests being threatened with fines for orchestrating illegal masses across the country over the past 12 months, WWN travels to county Tipperary to attend what has commonly become to be known as a Godbeen, where scenes of Ireland’s underground masses are rife. Disguised as 6-foot 2 elderly woman caped in… Read more »
GET to know Ireland’s patron saint better with these lesser known facts about St. Patrick: Credited with using the shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity, St. Patrick was actually trying to explain the concept of the 3-in-1 Chinese to the Irish. St Patrick was Ireland’s first official entry to the Eurovision appearing in a duet… Read more »
THE Vatican has once again shot down the notion that it would be giving same-sex marriages the OK, adding that the Pope ‘isn’t as gay as you might have thought he was’. “Pope Francis did a lot of talking about how we’re all God’s children and so on and so forth, but did you guys… Read more »
ALL too aware of how hard lockdown has been on his congregation one local Satanist leader has urged the government to allow his faith’s annual ritualisitc sacrifice ceremonies to go ahead around Easter this year. Echoing other faiths calls for in-person religious worship to be allowed, a robed Satanist druid Conor Daggan, said his congregants… Read more »
WORRIED that you were going to be have to kick off your Lent without a reminder that you are but dust and unto dust you shall return? well fear not, as a quick-thinking Waterford priest has devised a novel solution for administering ashes in a socially distanced manner. “I call it the long finger” beamed… Read more »
IRISH society has commended the Irish Catholic Church for the huge effort it exerted in lasting all of two days pretending to be contrite before reverting to its same old tactics and blaming everyone else. Fresh from a sullen faced ‘hand ups, we’re sorry’ apology late last week, Archbishop Eamon Martin quickly adopted the classic… Read more »
TV VIEWERS have expressed concern for Ireland’s favourite binge worthy TV show The Angelus, after many reported that the iconic bongs sounded a little ‘off’ in recent days, ever since the details of the Mother and Baby Homes report was first leaked to the media. “Can you hear sweat? Is that possible?” confirmed RTÉ’s chief… Read more »
THE CATHOLIC church has ‘apologised unreservedly’ for its very small, barely significant part in setting up and running Mother and Baby Homes for 70 plus years which proved to be a bottomless pit of immense cruelty and inhumanity down which they gleefully threw 56,000 women. Experts with previous experience of church apologies in Ireland have… Read more »