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Reminder: Zoom today (Thurs @ 8.00pm) – A Divine Calling – Soline Humbert with Mary McAleese
February 10 2026
Colm Holmes
Soline's book "A Divine Calling" is available in most bookshops in Ireland. The book can also be ordered online from the publisher Liffey Press who ships worldwide: https://theliffeypress.com/a-divine-calling-one-woman-s-life-long-battle-for-equality-in-the-catholic-church.html
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Brendan Hoban: Church must reconnect with growing cohort
February 9 2026
Anne King
Thank you Brendan Hoban for these words, which seem like a soothing balm, especially to one who is "trying out" the Catholic church again after a 50 year absence. I was raised by Anglo-Irish parents in the Catholic church. After 12-14 years of hellfire and brimstone every Sunday, I simply asked God to free me from the Catholic church and He promptly obliged. At a mass at university a visiting priest confidently said that one did not have to be religious to serve God. With that I was gone and did not miss the church one bit, not even when my beloved Catholic parents died. On the contrary, I felt free to breathe and live and to approach God without a middle man. However, the damage was done and remains. I was struck by your mention of people being "rounded up by a Redemptorist". My mother forced me to attend a parish mission one evening. I have no idea what group they belonged to but one of them proceeded to stamp his foot and yell at the parishioners like a rabid ape. The memory still fills me with anger. We might not be ordained but we are neither sheep nor cattle to be rounded up. Only in the last few days have I been able to ameliorate the wretched experience by thinking of Christ speaking to the lady at the well. My nearly 70 year old self would ask that missionary to be respectful towards fellow human beings and behave accordingly. I've no idea how far I will succeed in belonging to the Catholic Church. However, I cannot believe how poor the liturgy is. Don't we have writers and poets who could write something worthy of Christ? We have a benign parish priest who appears to be well liked by the parishioners. We have lay readers, the laity take up the offerings and ring the bell at communion. But I cannot help thinking these are breadcrumbs thrown from their majesties' hierarchical table. When it comes to evangelizing, I wouldn't know where to start. Evangelize to what? To a remote hierarchy of comparatively few men who decide everything without so much as listening to the laity and who haven't acted upon listening to the laity for I do not know how long. They don't appear to take much notice of their own priests either. I'm beginning to find it tragic that it would appear we have been served with 'clergyanity' rather than Christianity. Little wonder that so many people have walked away. Good job I still believe in miracles!
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Seán Walsh – Witnessed
February 8 2026
sean walsh
final words. "He told me not to tell... Sure how could I not?.." Better? I should think so!
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Church should accept gay people as they are
March 7 2013
Sidney Sykes
I'm not religious myself but am doing a research project for high school and used this as a source. I just wanted to say how helpful this has been to put my feelings into words and I wish all the best for you and your future endevours. - A student in Paris (this is from 2013 blimey I'm 13 years too late it seems)
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Reminder: Zoom today (Thurs @ 8.00pm) – A Divine Calling – Soline Humbert with Mary McAleese

Brendan Hoban: Church must reconnect with growing cohort

Seán Walsh – Witnessed

Church should accept gay people as they are