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‘The Best Catholics in the World’ – Zoom with author Derek Scally, Fri 21 May 8.00pm – including link.
You are cordially invited to a Zoom presentation with Derek Scally Author ‘The Best Catholics in the World’ on Friday May 21st at 8.00pm …
Time running out to save the church
Christa Pongratz-Lippitt reports in La Croix International on a press conference given by Father Helmut Schüller of Austria where he said that the sex abuse crisis shows an urgent need to ‘desacralize’ the Catholic priesthood and empower the laity. Time, he warned “is running out for the Church to make major structural changes if its leaders want to save it from collapse.”
Fr. Pat Rogers
Fr. Pat Rogers remains in hospital but is much improved and we hope and pray now on the road to a full recovery.
It has been a difficult time and he and his family are very grateful for your continued prayers and good wishes.
High time for Elder Wisdom. Sean O Conaill
High Time for ‘Elder Wisdom’ At a time when specialists in elder care in the UK are advocating the installation of CCTV in every room in every care home (to…
… and then our world started to slow down
Maura O Shea writes of her perspective on the distancing, isolating, and close downs that have happened as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Real Root of Inequality?
It is usually only a deep personal crisis of some kind that can – through heartfelt prayer – shake us free of the delusion that our value depends upon what others think of us
My abiding memory of my first Advent in Maynooth was being awakened at 6am to the sound of (as I thought) an angelic choir giving a heavenly rendition of “Jerusalem”. I genuinely believed I had died, only to later discover this was traditionally performed by the College choir for the unsuspecting first year students!!
Ronan Drury? A legend!!
RIP Ronan .. I have such happy memories of you in Maynooth 1983-86 .. you were always a breath of fresh air in a sometimes stuffy place .. this piece will always remind me of you.