Don't be fooled by the appearances! At first glance, these look like early printed books, but it is an ingenious chest of drawers. Has anyone seen this elsewhere?
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Don't be fooled by the appearances! At first glance, these look like early printed books, but it is an ingenious chest of drawers. Has anyone seen this elsewhere?
Why are fertility rates falling so fast in so much of the world at the same time? Is the main cause the cost of living, or perhaps it is changing social norms? The authors or a new study come down in favour of the second factor as the main cause.
Read more here: ionainstitute.ie/why-having-c...
Stamp features John Dunlap, from Co Tyrone, who migrated to America and was the printer of the first copies of the declaration in Philadelphia.
Euthanasia numbers in Canada continue to soar
In Canada in 2024, an astonishing total of 16,499 people died by euthanasia, according to the latest official report. It means the number dying in this way has trebled in just five years.
Read more here:
ionainstitute.ie/euthanasia-n...
Stuck at home and childless: study shows Gen Z postponing milestones
Only 1 in 10 Gen Zers in the UK have had children at 23 compared with almost one in four millennials at a similar age, while the former are also far less likely to have left home in young adulthood ionainstitute.ie/news-roundup...
Largest ever number of adult Catholic converts set for Dublin. The Archdiocese of Dublin is set to receive the largest ever cohort of new faithful this Easter. 130 candidates were presented in St Mary’s Cathedral in a ceremony led by Arch. Farrell. The figure is a rise on last year’s class of 80.
🚨Special Early Bird Rate ends this Saturday🚨
Catholic Couples Date Night taking place on Saturday, April 18th at 7 PM in the Armagh City Hotel.
An evening of connection, laughter, and faith awaits! 💕
Book here: forms.office.com/r/bMQpjvRfET
An expressive watercolour painting of an Eastern Bluebird
Continuing with my American birds series, this is a painting of an Eastern Bluebird I painted, such pretty birds!
#watercolours #birdart 🪶
Breda O'Brien: Christians tolerated Trump because they thought he would end abortion. They were wrong www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
What draws young people to Christianity? ionainstitute.ie/what-draws-y...
Commercial surrogacy 'dehumanising' say Archbishop Martin ionainstitute.ie/news-roundup...
Singularity cancelled 👍
https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/7a6c40872d173a37514c252ca8f35a8c65e0f714
How to reverse Europe’s free-falling birth rates ionainstitute.ie/how-to-rever...
The next lecture in our Philosophy lecture series takes place February 9th, with Professor Dr Patrick Zoll SJ.
All welcome.
#stpatricks #maynooth #philosophy
This month!
Join us on the 24th of February for an @irishtheolquart.bsky.social Lecture with Prof Adele Reinhartz, University of Ottawa, who will deliver the lecture "Shared Scriptures, Shared Questions: Jewish readings of the Christian Testament".
Register your place at specialevents@spcm.ie.
More good news on the ‘quiet revival’ front
After decades of steady decline, the proportion of Americans who identify as Christians appears to have stabilised, according to a major new survey by the Pew Research Center.
Read more here: ionainstitute.ie/more-good-ne...
Nothing to do with 6,666 abortions in 2019.
End of Life Bill Leaves Vulnerable Patients Unprotected. youtu.be/XcXen4UjQIE?...
Illustrations of some stamp designs featuring sharks. Featured are whale shark, black tip reef shark, thresher shark, lemon shark, and great white shark. No they can not be used as real stamps lol
shark stamps 🦈📬
#art #sharks
Unpopular opinion (especially if you're Italian): pineapple 🍍belongs on pizza 🍕and it's actually elite. Fight me. What's your verdict?
The Internet Archive headquarters: a large white neoclassical building with columns, stands on a street corner in San Francisco.
The internet's memory isn’t a cloud—it’s heat, power, and hard drives 🔥💾
Inside the Internet Archive’s trillion-page fight against digital forgetting, from PetaBox servers to legal battles over memory itself ⚙️📚
➡️ hackernoon.com/the-long-now...
#InternetArchive #DigitalPreservation #WebHistory
Bishops to establish commission on school divestment ionainstitute.ie/news-roundup...
I wrote this reply to Mary McAleese on infant baptism in 2019 and forgot about it. Still relevant as she is still repeating the same script.
ionainstitute.ie/mary-mcalees...
In Coolock Library, a crochet group is just one of the things going on. Libraries aren’t just places to pick up books these days, says Aisling Earley, a library assistant.
One in three pregnancies in England now end in abortion ionainstitute.ie/one-in-three...
Finally an official report rings the alarm bell about falling births
A new report from the National Economic and Social Council warns that Ireland is sleepwalking into a demographic crisis. For the first time, that warning is coming from a State-funded body.
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Atheist group seeks to strip public buildings of religious symbols ionainstitute.ie/news-roundup...
Why we need far more palliative care ionainstitute.ie/why-we-need-...
Finally an official report rings the alarm bell about falling births ionainstitute.ie/finally-an-o...