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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 ...
The NotMe.ie service has now registered more than one thousand symbolic defections, almost all from the Roman Catholic Church. In April 2011 the Catholic Church changed Canon Law to removed the option to record formal defections. This decision caused the CountMeOut.ie service to be closed. That service had been established ...
My name is John. For some of my childhood I was a Roman Catholic but from the age of 12, I have had no religious beliefs whatsoever. By age 13, I was a strong atheist and that is now over 22 years ago. I recently decided to officialy leave ...
There have been a couple of news stories recently, which are relevant to the Right To Defect. Firstly, The Irish Times has reported that the Dublin Archdiocese retains a register of those wishing to defect, even though Canon Law still prevents them from formally recognising those defections. Secondly, the ...
Notme.ie sees an increase in the number of people symbolically defecting from the Catholic Church. Atheist Ireland runs a website called notme.ie. The purpose of this website is to allow people to register that they would choose to leave the Catholic Church if they were allowed to do so. Over ...
The purpose of this article is to give parents who are questioning whether or not to have their infant baptised information on what baptism into the Roman Catholic Church means for both the parents and the child who is being baptised and to offer suggestions for secular alternatives for celebrating ...
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 ...