Study shows mental health benefit of Mass attendance

A major new American study of women, exploring the relationship between suicide and religious practice, could significantly change the professional approach to mental health care in Ireland. Women who frequently attend Mass or religious services have a “substantially lower risk” of committing suicide, according to research led by Harvard University’s Professor Tyler VanderWeele. The long-term study of 90,000 female nurses found that Catholic women aged 30 to 55 who go to Mass at least weekly are up to 20 times less likely to commit suicide than women who never attend religious services.
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After the Brexit referendum an Irish pro-democracy group wrote to a wide range of ‘Leave’ individuals and bodies in the UK, congratulating them on Britain’s vote for independence. It also alerted them against any attempts to reverse the people’s decision, “as happened with the Irish people’s votes against the 2001 Nice and 2008 Lisbon Treaties. And also with the French and Dutch votes in 2005 against the EU Constitution.”

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