Month: September 2022

Gerry O’Hanlon SJ: Ireland’s synod report reveals a country that is largely ‘suspicious’ and ‘intolerant’ of its Catholic inheritance

Gerry O’Hanlon SJ writing in America magazine: August, vacation time, can often be a quiet time in the news and opinion cycle. But the quiet was disturbed this year in…

Séamus Ahearne: “I don’t want to live in a world where remote controls rule. I want to live with my ears unplugged so that they can hear the music of the earth, with my eyes ranging beyond the bewitching screen.” (Soul singing – Hugh O’Donnell).

Those were the days, my friend: Mikhail Gorbachev has died. Glasnost. Perestroika. Rapprochement. Are recalled. Even if official Moscow TV suggests that Gorbachev had a too romantic view of the…

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