Tony Flannery: Synodality – an offer
Synodality – an offer I have followed the process of Pope Francis’ Synodal movement from the beginning. I regard it as an extremely interesting development in our Church, certainly the…
Month: October 2022
Synod latest…
#newsletter n.20 – 10/2022 – Available also in FR – PT – ES – ITShareTweetForwardShareGood morning everyone! The week just gone was marked by the publication of the Working Document for the Continental Stage. In order for “this stage to…
Presider’s Page for Tuesday 1 November (All Saints Day)
Today and tomorrow we remember all the dead, those in heaven and those still be on the way there: God alone knows where each soul is. Today’s feast celebrates the…
Presider’s Page for 30 October (30th Sunday in Ordinary Time)
Zacchaeus is the star of today’s Gospel, the man who has been called ‘everybody’s favourite underdog’. Zacchaeus took Jesus at his word and changed his life. We worship God, whose…
Bishops congratulate Bishop-elect Niall Coll on his appointment by Pope Francis to the Diocese of Ossory
Source: https://www.catholicbishops.ie/2022/10/28/bishops-congratulate-bishop-elect-niall-coll-on-his-appointment-by-pope-francis-to-the-diocese-of-ossory/ This morning in Saint Mary’s Cathedral, Kilkenny, in the Diocese of Ossory, Monsignor Julien Kaboré, Chargé d’Affaires of the Apostolic Nunciature in Ireland announced that his Holiness Pope…
Synod Latest: WORKING DOCUMENT FOR THE CONTINENTAL STAGE
Rome: Addresses of the Press Conference (27. 10.2022) At 12:15 p.m. today, the Press Conference for the presentation of the Document for the Continental Stage of the Synod: “For a…
Priest or Presbyter? Tom O’Loughlin looks to the future for the Catholic Church.
We Are Church Ireland Zoom: Priest or Presbyter? Tom O’Loughlin looks to the future for the Catholic Church. Thu, 27 October 2022, 19:30 – 21:00 IST Tom O’Loughlin is Emeritus Professor of…
Irish Independent: Crisis in priest numbers as a quarter to retire over next 15 years
Sarah Mac Donald A quarter of all priests currently serving in the Irish church are set to retire over the next 15 years according to the Association of Catholic Priests…
ACP AGM 2022 Overview – audio, script and Power Point presentation
Download and open this file to see a Power Point presentation of the AGM 2022, compiled and presented by Gerry O’Connor CSsR. It includes Tim Hazelwood’s Care of Priests presentation…
Charles Rue – Dreaming of a Revised Catholic Lectionary: Proposing a Way Forward
From Australasian Catholic Record 99/3 (2022): 321-332
Brendan Hoban: Latin aficionados leave UK in a sorry place
Western People 18.10.2022 It was, I think, Taoiseach Seán Lemass (1959-66), who popularised the practice of juggling ministerial appointments to ensure that competence or training wasn’t aligned with departmental responsibility….
Presider’s Page for 23 October (30th Sunday – Mission Sunday)
The Gospel story of the Pharisee and the tax collector is read on this year’s Mission Sunday. Those who are humble before God make the best witnesses to the Gospel:…
Patsy Fitzsimons: Assisted Decision-Making
Members of the clergy will be able to act as witnesses to the signing of decision-making assistance agreements, so it would be important that this is drawn to their attention…
Seán McDonagh: Will COP27 confront the current global climate crisis in Egypt?
Will COP27 confront the current global climate crisis in Egypt? Fr. Seán McDonagh The first Conference of the Parties to the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took…
Séamus Ahearne: Starry, starry night, Flaming flowers that brightly blaze, Swirling clouds in violet haze, Reflect in Vincent’s eyes of china-blue (Vincent, Don McLean)
Cherish family; Cherish your life: Hamish O’Flaherty spoke of his father. He then said that all of us should be grateful. That we should cherish our Families and Community. That…
AGM 2022 – audio
Click on the link below for audio of the ACP AGM 2022, held in the Radisson Blu Hotel, Athlone, Wed 19 Oct 2022. The guest speaker was Julieann Moran, General…
Fr Albert Nolan, RIP
The following has been received from Paddy Ferry… This, below, is from Fr. Jim Martin tonight telling us of Fr. Albert Nolan’s death. I first became aware of Albert from…
This Wed! ACP AGM Wed 19 Oct 2022 – Athlone
Association of Catholic Priests ACP AGM Wed 19th Oct 2022 Radisson Blu, Hotel, Athlone, 2.00-5-00pm. In person! All welcome. Snapshot Survey of Priests – numbers, churches, parishes… Julieann Moran on…
Synod 2021 – 2024
Press Communiqué from the General Secretariat of the Synod Original text: ITALIAN This morning, at the end of the Sunday Angelus, the Holy Father announced that the upcoming 16th Ordinary…
Presider’s Page for 16 October (29th Sunday in Ordinary Time)
If you want results, pray without ceasing, says Jesus. God will listen and help. Penitential RiteAs we prepare ourselves for this celebration, let us call to mind God’s generous mercy…
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