Year: 2022

The opening lines of Psalm 137 were highlighted in the Rastafarian song made popular by the group, Boney M back in 1992 – the Rivers of Babylon. It told the story of…

Link to We Are Church for full table: https://www.wearechurchireland.ie/my-post An analysis of National Syntheses (NS) from 28 countries shows Germany and Ireland top of the Reform Table with 83% each……

Balally Parish Pastoral Council invites youto the launch of Nature Praising God: Towards a Theology of the Natural WorldBy Dermot A. Lane 7:00pm, Thursday 13 October 2022 Church of the…

If you no longer use your old ******@eircom.net email address please advise us of your new contact email… Please email your new details to: sec@associationofcatholcipriests.ie Míle buíochas Liamy Mac Nally,…

Zoom : Thursday October 6th, 2022at 8.00 p.m. Zoom presentation by the Association of Catholics in Ireland Prof. Michael Conway Transmitting Faith in Contemporary Culture In processing the diocesan synodal reports…

‘Synodality and the Ordination of Women’ first appeared in the July-August issue of The Furrow. Donal Dorr I’ve just been reading a report in the National Catholic Reporter about how the…

Western People 27.9.2022 I don’t know quite how to put this but did you by any chance and at any stage raise an eyebrow at the excess of ritual that…

Zoom : Thursday October 6th, 2022 at 8.00 p.m. – Transmitting Faith inContemporary Culture In processing the diocesan synodal reports the ACI steering group concluded that no issue seemed of…

Refreshing the spirit: It is a luxury to be away. To be in the Algarve. To be with friends. To walk and to sit. To let the air speak to…

From the Irish Times: Article by Rev Dr Eugene Duffy, vicar for pastoral renewal and development in Achonry diocese. His book The Restructuring of Irish Dioceses will be launched in…

It’s time to listen! Chris McDonnell CT 23 September 2022 Listening is not a one way process but should be a matter of mutual concern, each paying attention to the…

COP27 which will take place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt in  November 2022 will it confront the current  global climate crisis? Fr. Sean McDonagh The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)…

Nine students have begun formal seminary studies for the priesthood for Ireland’s 26 dioceses this month. It is up on the six who entered seminary last year. A further ten…

Religious faith was the bedrock for the Queen       Western People 20.9.2022 (Yesterday), September 19, 2022, Queen Elizabeth II of England, after her funeral  service at Westminster Abbey, was laid…

‘Sin’? Time to Put Up or Shut Up The recent Church document Towards a Spirituality for Synodality admits that ‘the Church has consciously and unconsciously been an agent of oppression’ in the…

INTIMATIONS OF MORTALITY: We reached the airport. We arrived in Faro. Somehow we maneuvered the cases along the narrow aisle. Ryanair minimizes the space. We got down from the aircraft….

From the General Secretariat of the Synod One of the most significant aspects of the 2021-2023 Synod is the recognition that it is informed and shaped by a spirituality. In…