Spotted in an unnamed church in Cork.
(Alana Farrell via Conor P)
Tag Archives: Church
Church Tanks: a series of sculptures by ‘post industrial Rococo master’ Kris Kuksi.
It’s how they’ll make their last stand.
Previously: Fantastic Realism
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St Anthony’s Church, Clontarf, Dublin, this morning.
Thanks Lizzie Byrne
The Minister’s Treehouse in Crossville, Tennessee: a 10,000 square foot, hundred feet tall house of God constructed between 1993 and 2004 by Minister Horace Burgess.
Wrapped around the trunk of a giant tree and built entirely without blueprints.
Photos by Kristin Sweeting and Chuck Sutherland
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Above: symphysiotomy survivor Marin O’Moore, with her daughter last March prior to the first Dail debate about the procedure.
A DRAFT report commissioned by the Government into the use of a controversial childbirth operation says one of the reasons it was used was to obey laws influenced by the Catholic Church that banned contraception and sterilisation.
It is estimated up to 1,500 women underwent symphysiotomies – an operation to widen the pelvis – between the mid-1940s and mid-1980s. The procedure has since been linked with lifelong health problems such as incontinence, chronic pain and mobility problems.
The use of symphysiotomy began to decline from the late 1950s as a result of increased confidence in the safety of repeated Caesarean sections. However, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital continued with the procedure until 1984.
Presumably not a hot topic at the Eucharistic Congress.
Church influenced birth procedure, says report (Irish Times)
Previously: Meet Marin
(Photocall Ireland)
Chairman Gerry O’Hanlon S.J. addresses the Silver Massive at the “Towards an Assembly of the Irish Catholic Church” conference organised by the Association of Catholic Priests today at the Regency Hotel in Drumcondra.
It would be glib to suggest that this is the entire assembly of the Irish Catholic church right here.
(Photocall Ireland)
‘Jag’ writes:
Priest [Father Martin McVeigh, above] attaches USB stick to laptop to give presentation to parents [of children at a primary school in County Tyrone] for Holy Communion. Laptop auto loads memory stick which shows gay porn images. Priest removes USB stick and runs out of room.
“Twenty minutes later he returned, he continued with the meeting and wrapped up by saying that the children get lots of money for their Holy Communion and should consider giving some of it to the church.”
What a recovery!