Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP Leadership, weekly Sunday video homily
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“a never finished conversion”
Dublin diocese website carried the Homily notes of Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin on the occasion of the canonisation of John Henry Newman.
“A Catholicism of self-defined certainties will lead eventually to a doubt about all certainties and thus to emptiness. A Catholicism of self-defined certainties and self-importance led to an authoritarian and harsh Irish Catholicism, with consequences we know only too well.”
“I am astonished at the content and tone of daily messages on social media by Catholic pundits on the left and the right that are anything but kindly. There are those who spend all day attacking and responding and feeling that in this they are defending the integrity of Church teaching. The kindly light will never be defended by nastiness and bitterness.”“The Light From the Southern Cross”
Joshua J. McElwee writes in NCR on the report commissioned by Australia’s bishops and religious orders into how governance in the church can be more “co-responsible,” or be better shared among bishops, clergy and laypeople.
‘The most visible indicator of the barriers to full participation is that the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in Australia, as in the Church across the world, remains exclusively male.’Pope orders new investigation into allegations against Bishop Barros
Gerard O’Connell reports in americamagazine.org that Pope Francis has sent “Msgr. Charles Scicluna, the archbishop of Malta and President of the College for the examination of appeals (“in materia delicta graviora,” “in matters of grave crimes”) in the Ordinary Session of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, to go to Chile to hear those who have expressed their wish to submit elements in their possession”.
Text of Rev. Dr. Scott McKenna’s Edinburgh Newman lecture, April 15th
Newman Association, Monday 15 April, 2024 Mayfield Salisbury Church, Edinburgh The Bible: A Mosaic Introduction In art, a mosaic is a surface which has been decorated, beautifully decorated, with coloured,…
MCGUIRK: The disgraceful calumny of Tuam
With the excavation work already underway in the Tuam Mother and Baby Home, Gript editor, John McGuirk, has penned a most interesting article. Link to the article:
The Catholic Church is called “to form consciences, not to replace them.”
John Henry Newman Following Conscience on our Journey in Faith Chris McDonnell CT September 18th 2020 The recently canonized John Henry Newman concluded a long Note on Conscience addressed to…