Seán Walsh: Doubt
DOUBT What! I get back to Jerusalem to find ye – changed… different almost… quiet… dazed… well nigh in shock… Jesus… What about him?.. What?! Back… back from the dead?…..
Month: February 2025
Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP Leadership, Weekly Sunday Homily – 8th Sunday 2025
Weekly Sunday Homily – Week 8, Year C – 2 March 2025 – Intuitive Link:
Irish Catholic: More Irish dioceses set to amalgamate
Ireland’s four archbishops are scheduled to fly to Rome this week for meetings with the Dicastery for Bishops to discuss Vatican plans to amalgamate more Irish dioceses. Bishops have come…
Invitation: International Women’s Day
Invitation to join WAC Ireland Action on INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 8 MARCH 2025 EQUALITY FOR WOMEN IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH Date: Saturday 8 March 2025 Time: 10.30am – 11.30am (meet 10.15am outside…
Seán Ó Conaill: Renouncing Satan?
At times of unease, of climate change and mass migration, could the normalisation of political lying have consequences no one foresees? “That is not who we are,” said Simon Harris…
Brendan Hoban: Catholic Church needs to offer ‘salt and light’
Western People 18.2.2025 A friend suggested to me recently that what the Catholic Church needed now was a return to the days of religious persecution. There was no sturdy Catholic…
Séamus Ahearne: “No man (or woman) is an island.” John Donne
THE THIRD ANNIVERSARY 24TH FEBRUARY: Three years of Russian madness in Ukraine is marked today. The US joined Russia to vote against the UN Resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of the…
Presider’s Page for 2 March (Ordinary Time 8)
Words matter. What we say has an effect on others, for good or ill. God’s word to us is spoken in Jesus, the Word made flesh, in whose name we gather this and every Sunday.
Tony Flannery: Bishop Willie Walsh RIP
Bishop Willie Walsh, or ‘Willie’ as we normally referred to him – he was the most unclerical of bishops – has died at the age of ninety, having lived a…
Jim Cogley Reflections: Tues 25th Feb – Mon 3rd Mar 2025
Note: A seminar entitled Personal and Ancestral Healing will be held in Lady’s Island Community Centre on Saturday8th March from 10am to 4pm. Cost €40 with refreshments included. Facilitators –…
Update: Pope at Gemelli Hospital, respiratory crisis in the morning
Pope Francis, although in more pain, spent the day sitting in an armchair. Blood transfusions were necessary and prognosis remains guarded. Vatican News 21/02/2025 Doctors: Pope responding to treatment but…
Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP Leadership Sunday Homily
Gerry O’Connor: 7th Sunday Ordinary Time Year C 2025 – the theme is Scope Link
Synod Update: Irish Synod welcomes progress of universal Synod’s ten study groups
From: https://catholicnews.ie/irish-synodal-pathway-welcomes-progress-of-universal-synods-ten-study-groups/ 19 Feb, 2025 | Church, News, Synod, World Coordinators and secretaries of ten Study Groups, set up in March 2024 by Pope Francis following the First Session of the Sixteenth Ordinary General Assembly…
Bishop Emeritus of Killaloe, Willie Walsh RIP
20 Feb 2025 Bishop Willie Walsh, Bishop Emeritus of Killaloe Statement of Bishop Fintan Monahan on the death of Bishop Emeritus of Killaloe, Willie Walsh RIP There is profound sadness…
Soline Humbert: St Brigid of Kildare
A reflection by Soline Humbert for the Women’s Ordination Conference Retreat “Hidden Springs, Holy Radiance” 9 February 2025 [ see recording on YouTube ] We have been gathering over the…
CruxNow: U.S. bishops sue Trump administration over funding freeze
By John Lavenburg 19 Feb 2025, National Correspondent NEW YORK – Citing the violation of multiple laws and Congress’s authority to control government spending as outlined by the Constitution, the United…
Presider’s Page for 23 February (Ordinary Time 7)
Loving the enemy and praying for those who make life difficult are two marks of a Christian, or so Jesus teaches us today. We gather, aware of how difficult love can be, yet united by the saving mercy of God, on which we rely.
Brendan Hoban: Trump’s bullying must not go unchallenged
Western People 11.2.2025 50 years ago, in the summer of 1975, in the bicentenary year of the United States of America, I spent six glorious weeks in sunny California. It…
Vatican News: Pope’s complex clinical picture requires longer hospitalization
The Holy See Press Office releases an update on Pope Francis’ health as he is treated for a respiratory infection in hospital, noting that his complex clinical picture requires an…
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