Month: September 2025

Training Courses and Programmes Two important training opportunities on synodality are opening this October and November. Both online courses (with CEG also offering an in person workshop) are designed to…

September 24, 2025 Several of us watched Cardinal Dolan’s recent FOX interview, where he referred to Charlie Kirk as “a modern-day St. Paul.” The Cardinal praised Mr. Kirk’s conviction and…

Western People  23.9.2025 We live in strange  times. While a permanent feature of life in every century and in every decade is to be convinced that ‘the world is in…

Changing Mindsets/ Shifts in Consciousness: I recently attended a day of Reflection at Cabragh Wetlands (https://cabraghwetlands.ie/), near Holycross, Co. Tipperary.  The presentation was given by Bishop John Ryan SPS, retired Bishop…

I asked the chapter to approve the following proposal:  This Ordinary General Chapter asks the whole church—through  the ongoing process of actual synodality—to keep pursuing its important focus on the…

(The anniversary Mass is in St Joseph’s Redemptorist Church, Dundalk today.) His wife Leila flew into Belfast airport and was collected by Peter (Eddie’s brother) for this Mass and the…

The Orcadian poet Morag MacInnes, wrote her reflections on the teachers who influenced her. It is a beautiful article and rather evocative. (The Tablet  11th September 2025). I circulated that…

Thirteen new seminarians have begun their 2025-2026 academic programme and priestly formation for Irish dioceses. Welcoming the new student intake, Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan, chair of the Bishops’ Council for Vocations,…

Join us for the launch of two new publications from St Patrick’s Pontifical University faculty members launched by Bishop Michael Duignan. October 06th @ 19:30pm in St Patrick’s Pontifical University,…

26th Sunday Year C 2025 – Sunday 28th Sept 2025 Theme ‘Indifference’:

Western People  16.9.2025 For most appointees of significant posts in public office, the usual measure of their style and effectiveness is their ‘first 100 days’. Donald Trump famously proclaimed to…

Tues 23rd Sept – Befriending Anger Just a month ago the above little book was launched during our annual pilgrimage along with volume 13 called, A World of Symbols. This…

Rite & Reason: Catholic Church could learn a lot from Episcopal church on homosexuality, the ordination of women and interplay between science and religion – but it won’t Fr Tony…

By Elise Ann Allen Sep 18, 2025 |Senior Correspondent Link to article: https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2025/09/pope-leo-stresses-welcome-of-lgbtq-catholics-wont-change-teaching?fbclid=IwY2xjawM5akNleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHnIQdRTiLiqh-dxx-wE4Nb1K_BfsFPdUhAs8KcMnKAhCumXrKJkXJT2h146h_aem_9gobKhJy__zNJzMEmcAfIw ROME – In a wide-ranging interview given for a new biography on him, Pope Leo XIV has said…

In just a few weeks, delegates from across Ireland will gather in Kilkenny for the Pre-Synodal Assembly taking place on 18th October 2025. This is an important step on our…

25th Sunday Year C 2025 Theme: Shrewdness Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4SV6p-t3yI