Last Priests TV doc on again 1 Sept @ 11.05pm
The Documentary The Last Priests is being shown again on RTÉ 1 television on Sunday 1st September in the evening at 11.05 pm.And The Last Nuns on Sunday 8th, also…
Month: August 2024
Gerry O’Connor CSsR Sunday Homily 22nd Sunday – 1 Sept 2024
Gerry O’Connor, CSsR and ACP Leadership team: ‘Big Picture’ Homily for 22nd Sunday Year B 1 Sept 2024. Link:
2024 SEASON OF CREATION
Each year from September 1 to October 4 Catholics join Christians worldwide in celebrating the Season of Creation. Find out how you can get involved in 2024. Link to website, which includes Season…
If women cannot be deacons, we should stop ordaining men deacons
NCR Thomas Reece Pope Francis has made perfectly clear that he is opposed to ordaining women as deacons. Although I disagree with him, I accept that we are not going…
The Irish Catholic: Kilmore prepares for fewer priests
Renata Steffens August 15, 2024 The Diocese of Kilmore is having to rearrange and redistribute priests due to the declining number of available priests in the diocese. “There are simply…
Presider’s Page for 1 September (Ordinary Time 22)
As we move from summer to autumn, we praise God who sustains us all year round. We ask for help with new undertakings and perseverance with continuing projects, knowing that nothing will work well without God’s grace.
The Irish Catholic article: ‘Ardagh and Clonmacnois deal with low number of priests’
It is not a surprise the number of active priests has been dropping drastically in the past decades. This issue can be seen in every diocese throughout the country, and…
America Magazine: Sister Theresa Kane, who challenged St. John Paul II on women’s roles in the church, dies at 87
Born in 1936 to Irish immigrants from County Galway, Sister Theresa and her six siblings were raised by their parents in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. She…
Jim Cogley: Reflections: Tues 27 Aug – Mon 2 Sept 2024
After a weekend of festivities, the usual midnight postings have given away to morning deliveries! Strong winds in the area unfortunately disrupted the broadband service making it impossible to transmit…
Brendan Hoban: Edna gave Irish women a voice in a dark time
Western People 20.8.2024 I’m in mildly reminiscent mood this week as, with the recent death of the writer, Edna O’Brien, and the memories it evokes. I recall my student years…
Tony Flannery: I never wanted to be seen as martyr or victim but I can’t stay silent on my suspension as a Catholic priest
Article from Tony’s blog and The Irish Times. Link to article on Tony’s blog: I was sanctioned for speaking in favour of female priests and changing the church’s teaching on…
Gerry O’Connor CSsR: Homily for Sunday 25 August 2024
These are weekly homilies shared by Fr. Gerard O’Connor C.S.s.R., at the Redemptorist Community, in Scala, Cork, Ireland. Gerry is a member of the ACP Leadership Team. Link:
Seán O’Conaill: The Scandal of the Eucharist in Ireland in 2024
Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.” It was to this teaching…
Invitation from Jim Cogley, Our Lady’s Island, Wexford
Just to let you know that you can tune in to next Sunday Service at 3pm with Celine Byrne Soprano singing and speaking in Our Lady’s Island. Just go to …
Presiders’ Page 25 August (Ordinary Time 21)
We gather as people who have chosen to serve the Lord, chosen to walk the Christian way. We worship God who leads us on — and ask for strength to continue as we have begun.
Thomas Reese – NCR: Avoid the extremes when dealing with the role of religion in politics
Link to article (full article printed below): https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/guest-voices/avoid-extremes-when-dealing-role-religion-politics?utm_source=NCR+List&utm_campaign=3a5b08987e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_08_19_10_38&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6981ecb02e-3a5b08987e-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D The role of religion and politics has always been controversial in America, from its inception to the present day. Many of the…
Synodal Pathway: Two Additional Courses Added for the Facilitative Leadership Training Programme
A note from Julieann Moran, General Secretary for the Synodal Pathway. Dear Representatives, You are receiving this email as you, or someone on behalf of your movement, association, organisation or…
Jim Cogley: Reflections Tues 20 Aug – Mon 26 Aug 2024
Tues 20th Aug 24 – Biblical Keys to Happiness Fifty years ago, I came to a stage where I was feeling particularly distressed while training for the priesthood in Maynooth…
Brendan Hoban: We don’t always have to pray with words
Western People 13. 8.2024 Almost 60 years ago when, with 83 classmates, I entered Maynooth College to study for the priesthood, we were given a number of books to guide…
Séamus Ahearne: What would the world be, once bereft, Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. (Inversnaid by Gerard Manley Hopkins, quoted by Michael Longley)
Weekend 17/18th August-Proverbs 9:1-6 Wisdom is building a house and then erecting a sign, with an invitation for all the ignorant and foolish to come along. The language is strong…
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