Sean O’Conaill: How to Crash ‘Magisterium AI’
What happens if you point to apparent contradictions in ‘church teaching’ over time in an online artificial intelligence engine? Sean O’Conaill has had some fun in finding out. “The truth…
Year: 2024
ACCCR (Australasian Catholic Coalition for Church Reform): Observations from Near and Afar
Although these ‘Observations’ refer directly to experiences in Ireland and three African countries, they are also relevant to the church in Australia. Eleanor and Kevin. Tommy Hayden and Leo…
The new website of the Bethlehem Fair Trade Bazaar is online
Taken from the Pro Terra Sancta website. giulia colaluce 5 January 2024 It was a Christmas without pilgrims in Bethlehem. The context of crisis due to the war has alienated…
Brendan Hoban: Coarseness in society is getting out of hand
Western People 10.1.2024 I’m not too sure who counted them (or how it was done) but apparently 60,000 swearwords were broadcast in Britain last year. It seems a lot but…
We Are Church zoom: Synod 2023 and 2024 with Bishop Alan McGuckian SJ
We Are Church Ireland is hosting a live webinar on Thursday, 25 January from 7pm until 8.30pm. Sr. Denise Boyle will be in dialogue with Bishop Alan McGuckian SJ who…
Brendan Hoban: We’re all still searching for meaning in life
Western People. 3.1.2024 For the first column of another new year, let’s take a subject of some importance: has religion a future? The doubters used to say that when science…
Brendan Hoban: Priest & Parson – Thomas William Dixon (1793-1830)
Printed in the last edition of Western Star, a Western People publication, edited by James Laffey. (After reading the original article, an ACP member suggested that other members might also…
Presider’s Page for 14 January (Ordinary Time 2)
Now that the Christmas season is behind us and we are moving into the New Year, the liturgy challenges us to reflect on what following Christ means. We gather as God’s people, called to follow the Lamb of God and we praise God, with thanksgiving.
• This is the World Day of Migrants and Refugees.
David J. Murnaghan: Reformation – Then (16th Century) and Now (21st Century)
John Hus was strong in his denunciation of the corruption of the clergy, which echoed the convictions of many devout men and women. He seemed to have had no desire…
Synodal Pathway Update from Julieann Moran
Third Intercontinental Massive Online Course Please find the details of the next Intercontinental Massive Online Course (MOOC). This time the MOOC will address the theme Toward a Constitutively Synodal Church. All the…
Jim Cogley: Reflections Tues 9 Jan – Mon 15 Jan 2024
Tue 9th Jan – Homelessness One of the speakers at our Annual pilgrimage in Our Lady’s Island a few seasons back was Fr Peter Mc Verry, the founder of the…
Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith: Press release concerning the reception of ‘Fiducia supplicans’
05 January 2024 The following is the English text of a statement released on Thursday, 4 January, by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith that clarifies the application…
Seán Walsh: Wise Men or Fools?
Wise men – or fools?! I would see for myself – and about time, too!There, standing at the entrance, all quiet within.Family… Indeed, you might say, a holy family –the…
Presider’s Page for 7 January (Baptism of the Lord)
Today we celebrate the feast of the Baptism of the Lord: it’s the last day of the Christmas season. The baptism of Jesus marked the end of his quiet years in Nazareth and the start of his public ministry.
Seán Walsh: Out of Palestine
They’re gone – left the stable at first light, urgently. …
Séamus Ahearne: ‘We have entered our goodbye time in the world. Whatever happens next, will happen without us.’ (Old believers – A Small Psalter, Pádraig Daly osa)
SUNDOWN SERVICE: Yesterday afternoon (31st December), we had our Sundown Service. It was a Goodbye to 2023 and a welcome to 2024. It is always a very reflective occasion. We…
Jim Cogley: Reflections Tues 2 Jan – Mon 8 Jan
Belated New Year Greetings to you all and best wishes. Just a few ‘serious’ questions to begin 2024 and thank you for your kindness in passing them on. I get so…
Towards Catholicism in Numbers by Tim Kinnear
This webpage presents resources that take steps towards developing Catholicism in Numbers. The Catholic Record Society seeks to develop this project in collaboration with researchers and others who wish to share…
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