A conversation about what a Catholic Synod is and how Synodality will apply in the Catholic Church.
From Flashes of Insight with Joe Grayland – featuring:
Cardinal John Dew
Archbishop Mark Coleridge
Professor Tom O’ Loughlin
Link: https://youtu.be/XxrwOnYBk8g
Towards October 2024 – Summary of Contributions from Dioceses and Groups of the Catholic Church in Ireland In response to the invitation from the Secretariat of the Synod in Rome…
We express our sympathies to Gerry O Connor, member of the ACP leadership team, and to his family on the death of his father Tom O’Connor.
Ways of Seeing Chris McDonnell One of the traditional prayers of the Church is the Rosary. Four words in that sentence call for some explanation- traditional, prayers, Church and Rosary….
“I HAD GOD ON MY SIDE.” Leo Varadkar is 45. Simon Coveney is 52. Both are stepping out of frontline politics. Donald Trump is 78. Joe Biden is 81. Both…
Where is God during Covid-19? Cogar-Mogar: The sun is reluctant and grumpy, as it gets out of bed these mornings. It knows it has to get up at some stage,…
BY KIMBERLEY HEATHERINGTON 12 March 2024 Ireland’s nuns are vanishing. Once boasting a peak number of 13,400 members — in the 1960s — Irish female religious orders today count fewer…
“Thank you to the women who wrote into Gay over the years and made Ireland a better place to live in. Thank you to Gay for listening to them”. Can the Irish Synod do the Gay Byrne on it??? and really listen to what people are saying on the ground as opposed to “applying Church teaching pastorally”!!!
#1 Roy, you are so right. Wouldn’t Gay Byrne have been the perfect chair for the National Synodal Assembly? Perhaps Catherine Day from the efficient and effective Citizens Assembly might fill the role?
The one outstanding memory I have of the letters being read out in Gay Byrne’s radio programme is as follows:
A mother-to-be expecting a baby told the story of how her husband had arranged a big celebration party for the birth of their baby which in his mind was going to be a boy. The Mother-to-be gave birth to a baby girl and the big celebration party was duly cancelled. This was mysoginistic as it showed his mindset to be more appreciative of the birth of a son than the birth of a daughter. It was also a humiliation for his wife and his baby daughter.