Film documentary on Teilhard de Chardin
The life of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French priest-paleontologist-visionary, suppressed by his Jesuit order for advocating evolution is revealed in a drama of personal awakening, a search for meaning,…
Year: 2024
Lay Led Funerals in Killala Diocese
Last Sunday a feature on Lay Led Funerals last Sunday in Killala diocese was broadcast on Midwest Radio’s Faith Alive programme with Monica Morley and Fr Brendan Hoban. It’s part…
SÉAMUS AHEARNE: WRITE FOR THEM THE POEM OF THE GOLDFINCH AND THE WHOLE EARTH SINGING. John F Deane
RUSSELL BRAND: Was baptised in the Thames recently. Sceptical observers smiled with disbelief at his conversion. There was an easy suggestion that this conversion might be very convenient. I kept thinking…
NCR Online: Pope Francis voices firm opposition to women deacons in CBS interview
BY CHRISTOPHER WHITE, Vatican Correspondent, Rome — May 21, 2024 Pope Francis expressed firm opposition to the idea of ordaining Catholic women as deacons in a new U.S. television interview,…
Presider’s Page for 26 May (Trinity Sunday)
We celebrate Trinity Sunday today. The feast gives us an opportunity to reflect on the mystery of God, who creates, redeems and makes us holy.
Jim Cogley: Reflections 21st – 27th May
Notices: Next week’s postings will be a few days late in arriving. Three pieces of Wood You Believe wood-art are for sale on e-Bay with proceeds going to Mary’s Meals….
Brendan Hoban: We need to value our politicians a lot more
Western People 14.5.2024 Why would anyone want to be a politician in Ireland? The late John Kelly, a Dublin TD and UCD academic, once justified his own obsession with politics…
Seán Walsh: Pentecost
Pentecost “Yes, but how account for their gift of Tongues? And how explain – oh how explain! – the sudden reversal in the Galileans – from feckless to fearless?..” – from Conclave: Inside the…
Synod Update – Towards October 2024: Ireland’s Summary Document Published
Towards October 2024 – Summary of Contributions from Dioceses and Groups of the Catholic Church in Ireland In response to the invitation from the Secretariat of the Synod in Rome…
America Magazine: Theologian blocked by Vatican for his views of gender and sexuality gets green light to lead universityAmerica Magazine:
Claire Giangravé – Religion News Service May 15, 2024 VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Nearly a year after the Vatican blocked an Italian theologian’s candidacy to become the dean of an…
Synodality: Letter From Pope Francis to Parish Priests
Letter from Pope Francis to Parish Priests: ‘Without priests, we will never be able to learn how to walk together and to set out on the path of synodality,…
Jim Cogley: Reflections Tues 14th May- Mon 20th May 2024
Tue 14th May – Mary’s Meals Three of the Gospels have the account of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes where Jesus takes something small that is offered and…
Presider’s Page for 19 May (Pentecost Sunday)
Today is Pentecost Sunday, the second climax of the Easter season. We celebrate ‘the great beginning of the Church’, the day the Holy Spirit first came to confused and frightened disciples.
Brendan Hoban: Learning to make your peace with old age
Western People 7th May 2024 Recently, the once-well-known BBC literary pundit, Joan Bakewell, was asked: ‘How old is old?’ Now in her 90s, she dismissed the question as ‘old hat’….
Chris McDonnell: Ridge Tiles
We often use the phrase about a football crowd ‘raising the roof’ with noise at a match. It is an expression of excitement and enthusiasm that all can share. But apart…
NCR Online: Catholicism must reject ‘heresy of triumphalism,’ says noted Czech priest
By Christopher White Rome — May 8, 2024 Catholicism must rid itself of the “heresy of triumphalism” if it is to become more synodal and better able to evangelize in…
Seán Ó Conaill – Atonement: Why did Jesus of Nazareth accept Crucifixion?
If the earliest Christians were given new life by Jesus’ life, death and resurrection, and a vision of a new creation in a violent world now passing away, why should…
Brendan Hoban: Sadness and unease greets Church changes
Western People, 30.4.2024 When I was 13 or so and a boarder in St Muredach’s College I was given the honour of serving Mass every morning for the then bishop…
Text of Rev. Dr. Scott McKenna’s Edinburgh Newman lecture, April 15th
Newman Association, Monday 15 April, 2024 Mayfield Salisbury Church, Edinburgh The Bible: A Mosaic Introduction In art, a mosaic is a surface which has been decorated, beautifully decorated, with coloured,…
Presider’s Page for 12 May (Ascension of the Lord)
The Ascension of the Lord is celebrated today. The Church also calls this Sunday ‘World Communications Day’. As he left his disciples, Jesus sent them out to spread the Good News. This is our task too. We ask for the grace we need.
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