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 »
A SHEEPISH Irish nation woke with the unrelenting feeling of existential dread this morning after realising it, and not the Church and State, played the leading role in the decades of abuse, slavery and neglect of thousands of mother and babies, as detailed by a recent state commissioned report. Previously pinning the vast majority of… Read more »
AS THE survivors of the mother and baby homes digest the immense cruelty meted out by the person who leaked parts of the mother and baby homes report to the media, a member of government well known for leaking confidential documents and receiving no punishment has assured survivors whoever leaked the report would definitely be… Read more »
SOMEONE WITHIN government or the civil service leaking details of the Mother & Baby Homes report to newspapers. The Sunday Independent publishing it. Meaning this is how survivors first learned details from the report including that 9,000 children died in mother and baby homes. The human trafficking of children by the church. For profit. The… Read more »
THERE WERE awkward scenes in a local Waterford parish as families attempted to ignore repeated Zoom invites to midnight mass from parish priest Fr Eamon Amen. Expecting the current circumstances to exempt them from being guilted into attending midnight mass, locals have found themselves pursued by Fr Amen’s emails, texts and follow up emails in… Read more »
AS HUMANITY enters its 5,220th consecutive year of trying and failing to reason with religious extremists of all shapes, sizes and creeds, WWN is weighing up whether this is going to be a cartoon of Muhammad or something else, as we contemplate the fragility of our own existence which could be snuffed out at any… Read more »
A KINDLY gesture from the crown prince of Irish cooking sees Donal Skehan drum up a recipe that’ll prove a literal Godsend to worshippers around the country. With mass a no-go under Level 5 for the next few weeks and services moving online all except for weddings and funerals, parishioners can avail of Skehan’s handy… Read more »
AN UNEDITED transcript of Pope Francis’ controversial speech advocating same-sex families has been revealed, showing that the Pontiff may have swung his decision based on a four-day Queer Eye binge-a-thon as well as a heartbreaking viewing of ‘Call Me By Your Name’, WWN can report. The Pope caused ripples throughout the Catholic Church with his… Read more »
“When I think back on it now; it probably could have made a huge difference to the way humanity treats one another,” God said in an emotional interview with WWN, ahead of his newly published book ‘The Newest Testament’, due for release next month. During the course of promoting the latest update of the Bible,… Read more »