Darragh writes:
This Christmas Eve, 11am to 3pm, Pitt Bros BBQ on Georges Street, Dublin 2 will be holding a ‘Pig Out’ free food with €3 festive beers. There is a €15 cover charge at the door but the entirety of this goes to Saint Vincent de Paul. They’d like to encourage people to drop in for lunch during their Christmas Eve shop, fill up on meat and give back to the community!
Oink.
Bishop Martin Drennan (top) and The Connact Sentinel of August 19.
From The Irish Catholic:
Bishop of Galway Martin Drennan is demanding answers from the Society of St Vincent de Paul (SVP) in Galway after it dished out thousands of euro to fund a permanent lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender resource centre there.
The grant to LGBT Galway, €45,000 over three years, was approved by the society’s Maureen O’Connell Fund [The Society of St Vincent de Paul in Galway received the €7.8 million bequest in 2007 from the sale of an Eyre Square pub belonging to the late Maureen O’Connell] as a contribution to a full-time resource centre which Galway City Council has pledged to provide.
Galway diocesan spokesman Fr Sean McHugh confirmed that Bishop Drennan had made contact with the SVP to seek further clarity on the issue.
“We want to keep in mind the good work that the St Vincent de Paul does throughout the country. We don’t know the full facts of the story yet,” he said.
Bishop Demands Answers from SVP on gay donation (Cathal Barry, Irish Catholic)
(Graham Hughes/Photocall ireland)
