Euro Synod Prague update…
Tuesday 7 Feb 2023: Live streaming morning session:
Live streaming afternoon session:
Tuesday 7 Feb 2023: Live streaming morning session:
Live streaming afternoon session:
The Pre-Synodal Assembly took place in Athlone on Sat 18 June 2022. It has been described as a national and historic occasion. Monica Morley interviews Brendan Hoban and Bishop Paul…
Bowman Sunday this weekend “will be devoted to Enda: his childhood, his vocation, his many disagreements with the bishops, how relieved he was with the awareness that he would not…
John Wijngaards is founder of the UK-based Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research, writing in the Irish Times: Pope Francis has unleashed a synodal process of consultations in the Catholic Church. It offers…
ACP Zoom guest speaker, Julieann Moran, General Secretary for the Synodal Pathway, will discuss where the Synodal Pathway (Ireland) and the Universal Synod are at present. Julieann has just returned…
Brendan Hoban, in a recent Western People column, cast an eye over the opposition to Pope Francis. “When Benedict was pope, cardinals were falling over themselves hanging on to his every word, delivering reprimands to those who questioned papal tactics and giving sermonettes on loyalty and obedience to the pope. Now with a pope singing from a different hymn-sheet, for some of his cardinals loyalty and obedience seem to be less important.”
Prof. Thomas O’Loughlin, in a version of a piece published last week in La Croix International, tells us that “If we believe that the Spirit is moving in the community of the baptised, then a ‘vocations crisis’ is nonsense. It is only a crisis of us failing to look, train, and empower.”