Hope Springs…Spirituality for Lent

The Tablet reports: The newly appointed Archbishop of Tuam has said he is “very conscious” of the declining number of clergy in the Irish Church and the “dramatic decline” in…

The Irish Bishops’ Conference has issued the following directions in the light of current public health authority advice in Ireland, north and south, aware that these might have to change at very short notice.

This webpage presents resources that take steps towards developing Catholicism in Numbers. The Catholic Record Society seeks to develop this project in collaboration with researchers and others who wish to share…

Welcome to the Irish Synodal Pathway On 10 March 2021, the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference announced a new Synodal Pathway for the Catholic Church in Ireland leading to the holding…

William Crean, Bishop of Cloyne, speaking to the priests of that diocese told them that in his recent teaching Pope Francis emphasises ‘that an effective Christian communion requires that we embrace the concept of Synodality in the everyday life of the Church.  It is both the concept and reality of journeying with people.  It is to trust in the “sensus fidei” ‘.
Bishop Crean also reminded his audience of the good done in the past by religious and priests but also stated ‘The long lens of hindsight enables us to identify the poor pastoral practice of many of our predecessors.  Though well-intentioned a narrow moralistic focus made for a distorted and dysfunctional spiritual vision/understanding of Christian living.  We live with both the riches and the baggage of our past.’

Vatican News reports: The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith’s new document ‘Dignitas infinita’ took five years to complete, and builds on the papal magisterium of the last decade:…