Angelo Bottone

🚨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 🪶

On Ireland's wrong turn ionainstitute.ie/on-irelands-...

Opinion: Christians tolerated Trump because they thought he would end abortion. They were wrong The list of anti-Christian statements and actions by Donald Trump and JD Vance is long

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 In 2023, there were 1.26 million more deaths than births in Europe. This downward trend is set to accelerate, despite immigration. A new paper by the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies wonde...

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. Moreover, the youngest a...

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.

YouTube video by Hope Ireland End of Life Bill Leaves Vulnerable Patients Unprotected.

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 The country’s Catholic bishops are to establish a commission to examine how divestment of more Catholic primary schools to other patrons can be assisted. At present, the vast majority of primary schoo...

Bishops to establish commission on school divestment ionainstitute.ie/news-roundup...

Mary McAleese’s deeply flawed view of baptism and child autonomy Former President and newly elected Chancellor of Trinity College Dublin, Mary McAleese, has trained her sights once again on infant baptism and the consequent rights and obligations of Christian paren...

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.

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 New official figures show that abortions in England and Wales reached a record high in 2023, while the number of births continued to fall. As a result, about one in three pregnancies now ends in abort...

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 (NESC) warns that Ireland is sleepwalking into a demographic crisis. For the first time, that warning is coming from an important State-funde...

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.
ionainstitute.ie/finally-an-o...

Atheist group seeks to strip public buildings of religious symbols An atheist group in Greece has taken a case to the European Court of Human Rights seeking to have religious symbols removed from public buildings, especially courts. If the court finds in favour of th...

Atheist group seeks to strip public buildings of religious symbols ionainstitute.ie/news-roundup...

Why we need far more palliative care A new report by the Irish Hospice Foundation on “Dying, Death and Bereavement in Ireland” says that as Ireland ages, demand for palliative care is going to increase hugely. The report says that 350,00...

Why we need far more palliative care ionainstitute.ie/why-we-need-...

Finally an official report rings the alarm bell about falling births A new report from the National Economic and Social Council (NESC) warns that Ireland is sleepwalking into a demographic crisis. For the first time, that warning is coming from an important State-funde...

Finally an official report rings the alarm bell about falling births ionainstitute.ie/finally-an-o...

House Finch. Very bright. #Kennebunk #Maine 12/25. #Sony a6700 #Sigma 16-300 @ 450mm eq,fov. Program #birds & wildlife mods. #Photomator #nature #birdphotography #Ponit’nShootNature

Circle of Eugène Delacroix:
Portrait of a Young Man (c. 1899)

#art #man

"This Present World: Aphorisms for Knowing God"
by Steven DeLay
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"Phenomenologies of Incarnation in Michel Henry and Emmanuel Falque: Saving Flesh, Redeeming Body"
Mark Novak

Explores how Henry and Falque articulate a phenomenology of the body and flesh in relation to incarnation. bit.ly/4adESRI

Cardinal Pizzaballa celebrates Christmas in Gaza: "Together, we will rebuild everything" | ICN In the days leading up to Christmas, and faithful to a long-standing pastoral tradition, His Beatitude Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, entered Gaza on December 19, 2025...

www.indcatholicnews.com/news/53975

Why won’t the EU fund organisations with a traditional view of the family? The Federation of Catholic Family Associations in Europe (FAFCE) has accused the European Union of ‘ideological discrimination’ after being excluded from EU funding. In recent months, FAFCE applied fo...

Why won’t the EU fund organisations with a traditional view of the family? ionainstitute.ie/why-wont-the...