The Association of Catholics in Ireland has compiled a Directory of Synodality Synthesis submissions to date.
It is still a work in progress. This is the link to the page:
https://acireland.ie/directory-of-synodality-syntheses-in-ireland/
Press Release 22 Dec 2023 The Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) warmly welcomes the recent Vatican declaration, Fiducia Supplicans, from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, allowing priests…
“The biggest source of stress for most humans is fear of the negative reactions of other people.” So declared neuropsychologist Ian Robertson in the Irish Times (April 15th 2025). He was…
Video homily for Holy Thursday 2025. The Title is ‘Sustaining Grace’.
Chris McDonnell We have lost the voice of a good man, the writer, teacher, priest and family man, Michael Winter, who died in hospital last Sunday morning after a brief…
(Updated with link to Tony’s presentation) Last weekend I attended the conference organised by Root and Branch in Leeds, entitled Empowering Ourselves. In the past fifteen years I have attended…
Brendan Hoban writing in his weekly Western People column worries about the type of church some church leaders are pushing on the faithful.
“What’s emerging is almost a church within a church where visions, novenas and relics skirt the edges of superstition, where questionable piosities are lauded and intellectual rigour is suspect, where asking a question is tantamount to betrayal, where pleasure is distrusted and sexual pleasure anathema, where Catholicism takes on an Amish-like appearance and where a series of ‘Catholic’ newspapers encourage a return to the severity, rigidity and judgementalism of the past.’
