Christian religious education in Northern Ireland ruled unlawful; bishops respond

By Patrick J. Passmore Dublin, Ireland, Dec 17, 2025 / 06:00 am A U.K. Supreme Court ruling has…
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Scripture

For thus says the Lord: Only when Babylon’s seventy years are completed will I visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place. For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope. Then when you call upon me and come and pray to me, I will hear you.

Jeremiah 29:10–12

Reading

Around Easter [1923], unexpectedly, I received an offer from a school in Speyer. When my mother overcame her aversion to it, at least to a degree, I quickly accepted. What to my mother was an alarming catch was for me precisely the main point of attraction: the fact that it was a really old Dominican convent [St. Magdalena, Speyer] with which are affiliated quite a large number of educational institutions, among others, the Catholic education establishment for women in the Rhineland Palatinate.

Letter 84
5 February 1924

Prayer

Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross,
called from the people of the Old Covenant,
help us to live together in peace and
to foster reconciliation between peoples and religions;
graced with the freedom of the spirit,
be close to all who seek the meaning of their lives,
the truth, and deliverance from all bondage.

(here mention your intentions)

Perfected in the wisdom of the Cross,
accompany us and all people
in every distress of body and soul.

Our Father…
Hail Mary…
Glory be…

Saint Edith Stein, pray for us.

Novena prayer from the Carmel of Mary of Peace in Cologne, Germany
Image of Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) © 2023 Ruben Ferreira. Used by kind permission. Visit rubenferreiraart.com to explore more inspirational art by Ruben Ferreira.

Stein, E. 2014, Edith Stein: Letters to Roman Ingarden, translated from the German by Hunt, H, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

All scripture references are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America as accessed from the Bible Gateway website.

Don’t become discouraged and give up prayer, says St. John of the Cross. We offer varying novenas to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, as well as novenas to St. Joseph, St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin, St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, and St. Edith Stein.

Let us unite in prayer

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The great irony in parent Carlo Ravenna's deputation is that he seems wilfully blind to the fact that Catholic schools and churches have for decades been danger zones for many children abused by clergy, monks, and nuns.

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