Audio: ACP Zoom with Dr Michael Conway – Church, Institution, and Synodality in Contemporary Culture

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.”

Not a good day at the office for Michael D              Western People 28.9.2021 There was a lovely moment last week at the end of President Michael D. Higgins’ visit to…

Western People 29.10.24 One of my favourite writers, A. N. Wilson, has written yet another book: Goethe: His Faustian Life* – though I doubt (despite my own enthusiasm) that it…

The company of William Blake Aerial warfare during the Dawn Chorus: The Dawn Chorus saw in Sunday morning. Mooney went Wild. Paddy Glackin and Donal Lunny competed with the bird…

Brendan Hoban says that “The corona virus has robbed us of many things, including our freedom and almost our hope, but the experience of dealing with the death and funeral obsequies of those we love adds an unconscionable burden at the present time.”