The Meaning of Life – Bernard Lynch

BIDDING PRAYERS for Sunday Mass on 5 March Introduction (by the Presider)  Let us bring our prayers to God, who loves justice and right: The Presider prays for the dead: For those who have…

Seamus Ahearne posts a mid-summer reflection. Among other issues he wonders if “When people look backwards and dump the blame for everything on the past – they simply are avoiding the responsibility of what is facing them at the moment……. It is so much easier to be apologetic about the past than it is to look at today.”
He worries for Pope Francis “Why wouldn’t people leave him alone to get on with his business in Rome? We need him so badly and yet we waste his energy and time.”
But this mid-summer Seamus tells us. “We can stand back and let all this seriousness and pomposity of life be smiled at.”

An RTÉ report by Kagweni Micheni: A group of 21 women are travelling to Dublin to show their appreciation for Irish nuns who taught them in Cameroon during the 1980s….

Confession… Tue 17th Oct – Confession – Yesterday and Today It is very rare to come across a ‘thinking’ Catholic who doesn’t have a problem with Confession. The days of…

Can religious belief as we have known it survive in modern Ireland?  As many will know, I have been silenced by the Catholic Church but that isn’t to say, I…

Two diocesan bishops – Limerick and Kildare & Leighlin – indicated recently that they intend to proceed with asking lay men (only) to consider becoming deacons. Theologian Angela Hanley spoke…