Veritas Communications
Veritas Communications is a company owned by Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference which is a publisher and retailer of religious books and materials. Veritas has a number of retail outlets in Dublin city, Blanchardstown, Cork, Sligo and Derry. Veritas Publications publishes the Catholic magazine ''Intercom''. Veritas sells books, Magazines, CDs. DVDs, cards, candles and other items of a religious nature. Veritas publishes and distributes textbooks used in primary schools, such as the ''Alive-O'' and ''Grow in Love'' series, and secondary schools in Ireland. Veritas publish its books in the United Kingdom under the name ''Lindisfarne Books''. Veritas publishes ''Intercom'', a magazine of liturgical and pastoral resources for clergy that comes out 10 times a year. History Veritas has its origins in the Catholic Truth Society of Ireland founded in 1899 on the model of the English Catholic Truth Society. It opened its first shop on Lower Abbey Street, Dublin in 1928 and the Veritas Co ...
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Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference
The Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference ( ga, Comhdháil Easpag Caitliceach Éireann) is the episcopal conference of the Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland. The conference meets a number of times a year in Maynooth which is the location of St Patrick's College, Ireland's national seminary. While each bishop is autonomous in his own diocese, meetings of the conference give bishops a chance to discuss issues of mutual concern, or issues of national policy. Background In the Catholic Church, an episcopal conference is an official assembly of all the bishops of a given territory. Episcopal conferences have long existed as informal entities, but were first established as formal bodies by the Second Vatican Co