Our thoughts and prayers are with the community of Creeslough, Co Donegal following the tragic deaths of ten people.


Jim McCormack CM asks whether in a rapidly changing world the sacraments as we celebrate them require a complete overhaul . Evolution and change over decades and centuries has always been part of the church, its ministry and its celebration of sacraments; “Gradually a system will develop which will satisfactorily cover all the appropriate bases.”
The challenge facing the “POWERS THAT BE” is in deciding to let go and let what is past ‘rest in peace’.
Three Wood You Believe evening seminars entitled Getting the Past out of the Present involving Personal and Ancestral Healing are scheduled to be held in the Edmund Rice Healing Centre…
The next meeting of our Edinburgh Newman Association is on Monday evening next, April 15th at 7.30pm at our usual venue, Mayfield/Salisbury Church of Scotland, 18 West Mayield, Edinburgh EH9…
I winced when I read these words on the ACP liturgical resource for the 6th of July. What “virtue” exactly are we talking about? How is it possible to still…
At the recent annual general meeting of the ACP Tim Hazelwood outlined the continuing supportive role the ACP plays for many priests.
Seamus Ahearne writes of Pentecost, among other topics that caught his attention. “A new Spring. Speaking all languages – care, love, heart, understanding, acceptance, respect. Get rid of formality and functionality. Drop the apathy, lethargy, torpor. Our Church should be bursting with life, with fire, with heart, with fun, with laughter, with hope, with excitement, with exuberance, with a sense of adventure.”