The Vatican's 2011 statement on the death of Osama Bin Laden: 'Osama bin Laden, as we all know, bore the most serious responsibility for spreading divisions and hatred among populations, causing the deaths of innumerable people, and manipulating religions for this purpose. In the face of a man’s death, a Christian never rejoices, but reflects on the serious responsibilities of each person before God and before men, and hopes and works so that every event may be the occasion for the further growth of peace and not of hatred'

Today marks 51 years since the canonisation of Saint Oliver Plunkett The Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland, successor to Saint Patrick, was martyred for his Catholic faith The depraved savagery of his martyrdom took place at Tyburn, London, he was hanged, drawn and quartered, his dismembered remains set on fire and buried in the ground before his head was later brought back to his native Ireland At his canonisation in 1975, Pope Paul VI greeted the pilgrims in Irish: 'Dia is muire Dhíbh, a chlann Phádraig! Céad mile fáilte rómhaibh! Tá Naomh nua againn inniu: Comharba Phádraig, Olibhéar Naofa Ploinéad. (God and Mary be with you, family of Saint Patrick! A hundred thousand welcomes! We have a new Saint today: the successor of Saint Patrick, Saint Oliver Plunkett)'

The beautiful Irish tradition of the Station Mass This spread during the Penal Laws, when Mass was outlawed by British authorities It continued for hundreds of years after, with Mass said on a kitchen table, with local families packed into a kitchen and socialising after

Many people in the Irish church believe that if they just keep their heads down they'll be left alone But they will never leave us alone, their entire identity is still centred around Catholicism. No matter how much they claim to have moved on and forgotten about us, the Irish establishment's raison d'etre is animosity to Catholicism, because they have no positive view for the country. You can see by how poorly they have run the country since 2011 to know that the establishment has no innovative ideas, no other reference points, no vision for the future. That is why it is important for Catholics to push back, because the entire ideology falls apart once the emptiness of the post Catholic experiment is prodded

Gaelic Catholic hero Red Hugh O'Donnell died in exile in Valladolid in 1602 and was given a royal funeral He was buried in the Chapel of Wonders, the original resting place of Christopher Columbus a century earlier

'As I would in the case of a procured abortion, I oblige any Catholics assigned to the firing squad to request to be excused from this action contrary to the teaching of the Church' Archbishop Timothy Broglio on the upcoming livestreamed execution of Nidal Hasan

'Columbus is ours; since if a little consideration be given to the particular reason of his design in exploring the mare tenebrosum, and also the manner in which he endeavoured to execute the design, it is indubitable that the Catholic faith was the strongest motive for the inception and prosecution of the design; so that for this reason also the whole human race owes not a little to the Church' Pope Leo XIII on Christopher Columbus

'Columbus threw open America at the time when a great storm was about to break over the Church. As far, therefore, as it is lawful for man to divine from events the ways of Divine Providence, he seemed to have truly been born, by a singular provision of God, to remedy those losses which were awaiting the Catholic Church on the side of Europe' Pope Leo XIII

Compare the lack of help given to this Jason Corbett's family after his murder with the red carpet rolled out for Ibrahim Halawa, who was supposed to be Ireland's Zohran Mamdani