In terms of relationship building and new understandings between people who are different, not least members of the different faiths in Ireland, as elsewhere, it is often the things unseen rather than those in the limelight that can have unmeasured significance.
The Lady Chapel at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, was officially opened yesterday evening, Tuesday 9th July, 2013, by the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan T.D., following extensive conservation and refurbishment.
The Rt Revd Harold Miller welcomes the initiative being shown by the local lodges of the Orange Order to engage in face–to–face dialogue with local residents ahead of Twelfth of July marching in Ardoyne.
The Abortion Working Group’s submission to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children in relation to the Heads of Bills for the proposed Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013 is available in the Official Submissions section of the Church of Ireland website.
On the eve of the G8 meeting at the Lough Erne Golf Resort today and tomorrow, St Macartin’s Cathedral in Enniskillen hosted an ecumenical service organised by the ‘Enough Food for Everyone IF’ campaign at which the Archbishop of York was the guest speaker yesterday afternoon.