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Catholic Church records may be inspected over GDPR concerns By Simon Carswell credited to The Irish Times original article can be found here. The State’s data watchdog may have to inspect Catholic Church records in its investigation into whether the church is legally obliged to delete records of people ...
Notme.ie sees a rise in the number of people symbolically defecting This website was set up to allow people to register that given the option, they would officially the church they were brought up in. Over the last two weeks over 100 people have registered a symbolic defection. Many have ...
Guest post by John Hamill Anyone who has ever watched a television debate between religious and secular views (or followed such a discussion on social media) will have noticed the number of believers being quoted, to bolster a faith-based position. Recently, Michael Nugent participated in a radio debate on Newstalk ...
Taken from the Irish Examiner BETWEEN 1914 and 1915, the Jewish Czech writer, Franz Kafka, wrote the mesmerising novel, The Trial. Today, 100 years later, it illuminates the connection between bureaucracy and power. In The Trial, a young bank official, Joseph K, is arrested for a crime that doesn’t seem ...
A Statement From Count Me Out 22/12/2009 - Changes to 3-step Process Due in part to the number of requests generated by this website, the Catholic Church in Ireland has recently clarified its protocol for handling defections. Rather than sending the documentation to your diocese of baptism, it is now ...
A statement from Count Me Out Suspension of the Defection Process (Update: On the 20/07/2011 count me out released an additional statement which can be read here). In April of this year, the Catholic Church modified the Code of Canon Law to remove all references to the act ...
A statement from Count Me Out 20/07/2011 - Church Continues to Block Formal Cessation of Membership The Catholic Church continues to block efforts by those who wish to formally renounce their membership of the faith. The Countmeout.ie organisation recently assisted 16 people in their effort to have an "Act of ...
A statement from Count Me Out Countmeout.ie Closes After Church Failure To Allow Formal Defection 8th August 2013 The countmeout.ie campaign which provided a means to formally leave the Catholic Church is to cease operations with immediate effect. The website was established in June 2009, largely as a ...