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Today’s Homily Resources
10 April 2024 – Wednesday of Week 2 of Easter
10 April 2024 – Wednesday of Week 2 of Easter 1st Reading: Acts 5:17-26 The Temple police arrest the apostles, but without violence Then the high priest took action; he and all who were with him (that is, the sect of the Sadducees), being filled with jealousy, arrested the apostles and put them in the...
Read MoreNew Vatican document lists ‘grave violations’ of human dignity
Vatican News reports: The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith’s new document ‘Dignitas infinita’ took five years to complete, and builds on the papal magisterium of the last decade:…
Jim Cogley: Reflections Tues 9th April to Mon 15th April 2024
Note: Next seminar on Personal and Family Tree Healing is in Tallaght Priory Retreat Centre on Sat next 13th April from 10-4pm. Contact there for bookings. Tue 9th April –…
Joe O’Leary: The Nicene Creed in interreligious perspective
Joe O’Leary is giving a talk based on his article on the Nicene Creed in the Japan Mission Journal, abbreviated to 12 points. (Post updated 8 April 2024.) THE NICENE CREED IN INTERRELIGIOUS…
Synodal Pathway Update: Irish Synod prepares “vision of renewal” for national submission ahead of universal assembly
From CatholicNews.ie – News service for the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference – link to article: https://catholicnews.ie/irish-synod-prepares-vision-of-renewal-for-national-submission-ahead-of-universal-assembly/?fbclid=IwAR0quyOYGg9XZxU5beHU74h8hnrKrkr_EWawFiT6mKzIW0GLVzDIna7wsi4 The Synodal Pathway of the Catholic Church in Ireland has invited submissions from dioceses…
Tony Flannery writing in the latest edition of The Tablet – When Father Lets Go
While the synodal process is starting to transform the Church in Ireland, priests are often those most resistant to change. FROM THE START of his pontificate, it has been evident that…
Brendan Hoban: Harris’s zero-tolerance approach is justified
Western People, 26.3.2024 In today’s papers (as I write) there’s a report on an investigation by the Garda Anti-Corruption Unit into the activities of a Garda unit based in the…
Interesting article in America Magazine: Pope Francis opens up about Benedict XVI, past conclaves and more in new book…Also in The Tablet: The successor – a papal past and present
This is the link to the America magazine article: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/04/02/pope-francis-benedict-ganswein-interview-book-247617 Link to The Tablet article: https://www.thetablet.co.uk/features/2/24212/the-successor-a-papal-past-and-present?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Tablet%20newsletter%204%20April%202024&utm_content=The%20Tablet%20newsletter%204%20April%202024+CID_fef7696c29da052676375c572b15a35c&utm_source=SxTabNews_v1&utm_term=Austen%20Ivereigh
We Are Church Zoom Thurs 18 April 2024 – Bishop Brendan Leahy on Synod 2024
WAC Zoom Thurs 18 April @ 7.30pm with Bishop Brendan Leahy The Zoom will be in three parts: Free admission – to register click on the link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/synod-2024-tickets-861425405577?aff=oddtdtcreator
America Magazine Interview: The Catholic sister meeting with Pope Francis on women and the priesthood
Colleen Dulle, April 02, 2024 The quarterly meetings of Pope Francis’ Council of Cardinal Advisors generally do not garner much attention, but since last year’s synod, they have made headlines…
Soline Humbert: When is a chaplain not really a chaplain?
In his widely reported recent Chrism Mass homily, the Archbishop of Dublin,Dermot Farrell, put the word chaplain in inverted commas, as in: “The ‘chaplain’ who is a mother can minister…