Magisterium AI, a ‘digestive’ online processor of church documents, promises to be a useful, if not infallible, point of reference for those seeking clarity on official Catholic church teaching. When…
I am in the course of re-locating out of the house where I have lived for the past seven years, and going through all my ‘stuff’, and I came across…
The playfulness of Gabriel: Gabriel Daly died this afternoon – 30th August. The memories are like an avalanche. They overwhelm the mind. Stories and moments rush back to crowd the…
We have, over many centuries, held islands in a certain awe, places set apart, cut off, inaccessible, remote. Lindisfarne, or to use its familiar name in the North East of…
A KISS: Luis Rubiales made a big mistake. He should have seen, or recalled that he had seen, Pretty Woman. With Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. Julia insisted that a…
Australasian Catholic Coalition for Church Reform (ACCCR) Learning from the women of St Paul Kieran J. O’Mahony OSA (Augustinian) LaCroix International August 28, 2023 The real issue is hearing the…
By Elise Ann Allen ROME – With rapid advances in artificial intelligence causing both fear and enthusiasm as it pushes the envelope of potential new frontiers in technological progress, a…
Australasian Catholic Coalition for Church Reform (ACCCR) – Webinar Anticipating the First Synod Session – October 2023 with Bishop Shane Mackinlay Thursday 14 September 2023 7.00pm AEST, 6.30pm ACST, 5.00pm…
Francis in conversation with Jesuits in Portugal by Antonio Spadaro, SJ On August 5, 2023, during his apostolic journey to Portugal for World Youth Day, Pope Francis met with Jesuits…
Tue 29th Aug – The Art of Seeing It’s a subtle art, the art of seeing, something we need to learn a lot more about and practice even more. Here…
Western People 22.8.2023 For institutions a sense of entitlement can be the first step to oblivion. We’re special. We’re different. We’re not ‘like other men’. (Luke 18.11) Thus the pharisees,…
FIFTY YEARS A PRIEST: In two weeks, I will be fifty years a priest. I can’t believe how it is possible for these years to have gone by so rapidly….
We Are Church (WAC) is actively supporting the Spirit Unbounded Synodal Assembly 8 – 14 October 2023 where 100 speakers from around the world will call for “Human Rights in…
This hour of worship brings us into the presence of the God whose mystery we can never comprehend. All we have comes from the Lord, and we can only bow…
The Director of the Press Office of the Holy See anticipates that the second part of Laudato Si’ Encyclical letter Pope Francis mentioned during his audience to European lawyers on…
A Pilgrim’s Perspective – Tue Aug 22nd Arrival in Our Lady’s Island (Tessa Gallagher) When I look up at the pale blue skies I notice a few drifting clouds. They…
Here Seán O’Conaill argues that ‘Salvation’ must be understood in climatic terms also to address growing climate fear… According to an article in the New York Times in April of this…
America Magazine: Cecilia González-Andrieu, 17 Aug 2023 Forgive the assumption, but if you are reading this, you likely identify as belonging to the church. Or, at the very least, you…
America Magazine: Leo Guardado, August 17, 2023 This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication in English of Gustavo Gutiérrez’s A Theology of Liberation. That first edition of Gutiérrez’s book…
Western People 15.8.23. RTÉ. We love them and we loathe them. We are proud of them and embarrassed by them. We are humiliated when we see the mess they can…
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