Draft Working Document for the Synod on Synodality approved
On 10-11 May, the 15th Ordinary Council* of the General Secretariat of the Synod met in Rome to discuss the Instrumentum laboris: the working document for participants in the first session…
Month: May 2023
Reports: Zelensky could visit Pope Francis in first papal meeting since beginning of war
Gerard O’Connell reports in America Magazine Italian media is reporting that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky could visit Rome and meet with Pope Francis in the Vatican on Saturday, May 13,…
Brendan Hoban: America’s friends have reasons to be worried
Western People 2.5.2023 Dear America, From the distant years of my earliest childhood, America seemed oddly close to me. I put it down to two factors. One was that three…
Pope Francis’ secret Ukraine-Russia peace mission, explained
By Gerard O’Connell, America Magazine There are “new, but of course, confidential” developments in the Holy See’s mission to stop the war between Russia and Ukraine. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the…
We Are Church meeting with Dr Fáinche Ryan, TCD
Don’t know much about Theology? Discover everything you ever wanted to know…. but were afraid to ask! Dr Fáinche Ryan Loyola Institute, Trinity College Dublin. Followed by Q & A…
Inviting Debate on the Year of Vocations – The Editor, Letters, ACP
‘Take the Risk for Christ’ is the theme for Ireland’s Year for Vocation to the Diocesan Priesthood 2023 – 2024 Bishop Cullinan celebrated the televised Mass on RTÉ One on…
Presider’s Page for 7 May (Fifth Sunday of Easter)
Opening CommentToday’s liturgy puts the life-giving words of Jesus before us. He is the Way, the Truth and the Life, the one in whom we can place all our trust….
A good man
Chris McDonnell We have lost the voice of a good man, the writer, teacher, priest and family man, Michael Winter, who died in hospital last Sunday morning after a brief…
Edinburgh Newman Association: Fr Gerry O’Hanlon’s address: Synodal Pathway – Where Are We Now?
The Edinburgh Newman Association. Last Thursday evening Fr.Gerry O’Hanlon SJ spoke at our Edinburgh Newman Association on the Synod and “Where are we at on the Synodal pathway?” I now…
Brendan Hoban: Few priests to change around now
Western People 25.4.2023 One of the remarkable changes in Irish church life in recent years is how seldom priests are now transferred (or, as we used to call it, ‘moved’)…
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