Last Priests TV doc on again 1 Sept @ 11.05pm
The Documentary The Last Priests is being shown again on RTÉ 1 television on Sunday 1st September in the evening at 11.05 pm.
And The Last Nuns on Sunday 8th, also at 11.05pm
The Documentary The Last Priests is being shown again on RTÉ 1 television on Sunday 1st September in the evening at 11.05 pm.
And The Last Nuns on Sunday 8th, also at 11.05pm
Western People, 26.3.2024 In today’s papers (as I write) there’s a report on an investigation by the Garda Anti-Corruption Unit into the activities of a Garda unit based in the…
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Brendan Hoban, in the Western People, reflecting on current controversies says that what really released the dam of anger and emotion was the revelation of clerical sexual abuse and the failure of Church authorities to understand its enormity and to do something about it. The revelations on clerical sexual abuse gave people the freedom to surface and to name other resentments.
Cindy Wooden – Catholic News Service reports in America Magazine (direct link): https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2022/06/29/pope-francis-mass-reform-243260?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2928&pnespid=uLp9UThJKKMcgqOQtGqpTJuWoRz1D5ZyfOrlneVwowBm6TXxrlkRIDq8hD0qjYaE5vmwbkGM VATICAN CITY (CNS)—The “sense of mystery” and awe Catholics should experience at Mass is not one prompted…
Paddy O’Kane offers a personal reflection on his ministry of being priest to people who are hurting.
Having recently read Brendan’s excellent book, “Holding out for a Hero” and his description of the despair when it became obvious that the very conservative, autocratic John Paul II was intent on abandoning the ideals of Vatican II and returning our church to the nineteenth century, one of the former priests on last nights program “The Last Priests” summed it up so well when he said that with Wojtyla in Rome we were on a train in reverse gear heading back into the last century.
Link to programme(s):
https://programmesales.rte.ie/programme/the-last-priests-nuns-in-ireland