Might Covid and 2020 mark a final rupture in history of Irish Catholicism?
Salvador Ryan writes in the Irish Times:
Salvador Ryan writes in the Irish Times:
Information on Tony Flannery’s speaking tour of the United States
We are Church Ireland present a talk by Brian Grogan SJ on “Pope Francis’ Gospel Centred Church” on 09 March at 7.30 p.m. in Mercy Centre International, 64a Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2.
Refreshing the spirit: It is a luxury to be away. To be in the Algarve. To be with friends. To walk and to sit. To let the air speak to…
From the Synodal Pathway website: Cardinal Mario Grech, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops, Bishop emeritus of Gozo, was born in Qala, Malta, in the Diocese of Gozo on…
Sinéad Hussey of RTÉ reports: The Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All-Ireland is seeking a meeting with the Minister for Health over a “draconian” move to outlaw public mass…
Thoughts on the Synodal Pathway by Tony Flannery, CSsR Taken from Tony Flannery’s Blog: http://www.tonyflannery.com/can-the-national-synod-of-the-irish-church-be-a-success/ Synods and synodality are very much in the news in Catholic Church circles at the…
What does the word “final” mean in relation to the Christian community, the Church:
G K Chesterton wrote on “The Five Deaths of the Faith” in “The Everlasting Man”:
“I have said that Asia and the ancient world had an air of being too old to die. Christendom has had the very opposite fate. Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave. But the first extraordinary fact which marks this history is this: that Europe has been turned upside down over and over again; and that at the end of each of these revolutions the same religion has again been found on top. The Faith is always converting the age, not as an old religion but as a new religion.”
Ladislas Orsy SJ, who was 100 years old on 30 July, has a motto:
“Dum spiro, spero!” – “As long as I am breathing, I hope!”