Month: October 2025

31st Sunday Year C 2025 Theme: Religious Fluff? Link:

Western People 21.10.2025 American Catholicism can be a strange bird. A core belief is that Catholicism  dovetails nicely with the presumption that being rich is God’s blessing – with the…

Western People 14.10.2025 At present the two Catholic dioceses of Tuam and Killala are edging towards a merging of the (soon to be former) dioceses into a new union of…

PRESS RELEASE With Jubilee enthusiasm toward the 2028 Ecclesial AssemblyMeeting of the XVI Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod  (Vatican City, 28 October 2025). At the conclusion of…

Kay Burley was on The Panel BBC 1 Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg at 9. Burley has retired from Sky after 36 years. There was a shortened version of the interview…

All members are invited to attend our AGM in Athlone. It will run from 2.00pm-5.00pm. Speakers: Martin Whelan: The Canonical Rights of Diocesan Priests Fr Martin Whelan is a priest…

Coming Wood You Believe Healing Seminars: with Jim Cogley & Luba Rodzhuk: *Croí Nua Galway Fri 7th Nov 7-9.30pm & Sat 10am-4pm: Booking Croí Nua. *Edmund Rice Centre Callan – Healing…

Rite & Reason: True growth can be found in a Church faithful to the mission given to it by Jesus Christ As someone who is serving as a bishop in…

1. Full of gush and guff: ‘The Home of the Year.’ (Hugh Wallace, Amanda Bone and Siobhán Lam. ‘Strictly Come Dancing.’ (I only got a glimpse of each of these….

Sunday 26 Oct 2025 – 30th Sunday Year CTheme: ‘Hashtag Spirituality’ Link:

RTÉ’s former head of religious programming, Fr Dermod McCarthy, has died at the age of 83. A significant influence in the early days of television production in Ireland, he was…

Press Release – Wednesday, 22 October 2025 Statement of the Autumn 2025 General Meeting of the Irish Bishops’ Conference Members of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference gathered this week in Saint…

Invitation: A Wood You Believe seminar entitled: Finding healing from Personal and Ancestral Trauma will be given by Fr Jim Cogley and Luba Rodzhuk next Saturday 25th in St Matthews…

I have followed the Synodal process since the beginning, being very grateful to Francis for this initiative, and as a member of the ACP I did whatever I could to…

The Pope, the media, and the “normalization” of Trump As world media and leaders normalize US President Donald Trump’s erratic behavior, Pope Leo XIV must resist and keep his distance….

When          Tomorrow, 18 October 2025, from 8.30amWhere         Kilkenny Convention Centre, Kilkenny, R95 F685 Who            Laity, religious, and clergy…

Sunday 19 October 2025 – 29th Sunday Year C Theme: Pounding Link: