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Efforts to found new Catholic college in Ireland

March 14, 2014

Kathy Sinnott, a former member of the European Parliament, is leading efforts to found a new Catholic college in Ireland, according to an Irish media report.

Students at Newman College Ireland “will be encouraged to learn the unity of truth, and to see the goodness, truth and beauty of creation, as well as the inviolable dignity of human life, which is threatened in our time by an eclipse of the sense of God,” according to its website.

The college pledges to “adhere fully” to Ex Corde Ecclesiae, Blessed John Paul II’s apostolic constitution on Catholic universities.

 

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  • Posted by: normnuke - Mar. 14, 2014 12:09 PM ET USA

    Excellent! Ireland has fallen under the same evil spell as has Quebec. Most 'Catholic' universities here and abroad have fallen under the spell of the current jesuit culture. All of us need a change.

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