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
Link to Recording: ACP AGM 2023 RUNNING ORDER Radisson Hotel, Athlone, 7 Nov 2023 – 2.00pm-5.00pm Host: Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP Leadership Team H.M.S. (Hours, Minutes, Seconds) 00.00.00 Welcome and…
At the next meeting of We Are Church Ireland the terrific film Monseñor – The Last Journey of Óscar Romero (DVD 88 minutes) will be shown in the large International Room…
Many people are waiting for the outcomes of the global Synod in Rome. Its first session was held this October, and its concluding session will be in October 2024. So,…
More Rumours of Angels The delights of a frosty morning: These mornings seem eerie. The Tolka River holds its breath. I am suspicious of the quietness. The heron appears sometimes….
Towards a Synodal Irish Church Address of Cardinal Mario Grech to the Bishops of Ireland February 3, 2021 Link below: http://www.synod.va/content/synod/en/news/towards-a-synodal-irish-church.html Letter in full: Dear brothers, It is a privilege…
75 years ago, on 27 January 1945, the Soviet Red Army arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The world was soon to learn the full extent of the true horror of Nazi Fascism.
Chris McDonnell, writing in the Catholic Times, remembers: “All too easily we play with words to justify events, tell stories where truth is the casualty leading only to a greater misfortune. Maybe we should pause awhile as the month-end days arrive to ask a question and seek forgiveness.”
“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.