Year: 2021

In May 2020, The Mater Dei Centre for Catholic Education (MDCCE) conducted a survey measuring the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on adult churchgoers in the Republic of Ireland and Northern…

Just to advise that the Comments section for all posts has been re-opened. The vaccine hit the mark!  

Taken from an article by Christopher Lamb in The Tablet: Pope Francis has called for the Church in Italy to hold a national synod, a move that will put pressure on…

FEBRUARY 1ST – FEBRUARY 6TH AT 7PM  STREAMED LIVE FROM ST. KEVIN’S CHURCH, LITTLETON https://moycarkeyborris.ie/covid-reflections-a-vaccine-of-hope/   This is the link to the live feed for each of the talks: https://moycarkeyborris.ie/live-feed/…

Poem for St Blaise’s Day With churches closed amidst a pandemic lockdown one wonders about one of the burning questions facing the Irish Church today: can lay-people assist with the…

God Keeps on Singing Cara O’Sullivan: Cara O’Sullivan has died. Her funeral was on Saturday (30th Jan). Stories were shared across the media. There was a public Wake. It was…

St Brigid is also known as Mary of the Gael or Muire na nGael aka Our Lady of the Irish. She is one of the Patron Saints of Ireland, along with…

Please be advised that due to a technical glitch the comments section is being suspended, for the time being. It has emerged that some submissions are being incorrectly attributed. Apologies…

John O’Brien Women’s Ordination Followed by Q & A   7.30 – 9.00pm Tuesday 2nd of February 2021 Online ZOOM event     Professor John O’Brien Fr John O’Brien is…

Survivors need action a lot more than words Western People 26.1.21 Many years ago in a parish in which I served, part of the collective memory of the people –…

An open door? Chris McDonnell CT January 29th 2021 I make no apology for returning to a subject that I have mentioned a number of times in recent months, our…

Jim McDermott writes in NCRONLINE: …For almost 30 years I’ve worked in the Catholic Church as a Jesuit seminarian and priest. It has been a tremendously rewarding life, filled with…

ACP Leadership member Roy Donovan is advising that Kerry Diocese is running a pre-Lenten Mission. Link to Mission Booklet: https://www.dioceseofkerry.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Mission-2021-Booklet.pdf Link to today’s details: https://www.dioceseofkerry.ie/2021/01/diocesan-mission-jan-2021

Obliged if anyone has a 1998 Missal (ICEL) they no longer use. If so, please contact Vincent O’Grady 087-2235812. 

Tomorrow is Sunday of the Word of God. Click on the date (home page) for tomorrow’s readings and check out the supporting links provided by Pádraig McCarthy in the Comments…

The Power of the Poem The hill we climb ‘A skinny black girl’ put all of Joe Biden’s vision into new words. His ‘dream’ continued with the 22 year-old Amanda…

The time of reckoning Chris McDonnell CT January 22nd 2021 These few words are being written in the days leading up to the Inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris…

Michael J O’Loughlin writes in America Magazine:  In a rare public rebuke of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops from one of its members, Cardinal Blase Cupich joined with an…

Take five minutes to be…surprised by joy! ‘The Hill We Climb’ by Amanda Gorman, 22 years young… https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55738564 The Hill We Climb “When day comes we ask ourselves, where can…