What Now for the Catholic Church? – RTÉ Radio 1 Leap of Faith programme
RTÉ Radio 1 – The Leap of Faith, Friday 26 Nov 2021
What now for the Catholic Church? Presenter Michael Comyn
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What now for the Catholic Church? Presenter Michael Comyn
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Seamus Ahearne reminds us of God being found where we are, and asks; “And what then is prayer? It is noticing the little things. The little people. The little gifts. The little beauty. The hidden gems. The wonder. It is being able to see. To take off the shoes. To bow the head. To be grateful. To being aware. To looking back and remembering the graciousness of life in people. It is looking around and seeing the Godly image in everyone.”
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Vatican Radio announces that Pope Francis has appointed a commission that ‘could study the question” of the diaconate of women, “especially with regard to the first ages of the Church.” ‘
Interestingly for a Vatican body the commission is gender balanced.
America Magazine reports: BERLIN (AP) — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Essen has become the first in Germany to allow women to perform baptisms, citing a lack of priests. The…
RTÉ Radio 1 Leap of Faith programme…
Back then, as junior chaplain in UCC, I did not realize to what extent a new Cork was being born. The oppressive drabness and insidious taboos they were shaking off seemed to form the very element of the church, whose decline was just setting in. The church would have benefited hugely from engaging with these young activists and visionaries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmz4K2z7dY&t=424s