Apart from the home page, our website was offline since 31 December.
This was as a result of some security software on the site which stopped working. This software has since been reconfigured to prevent this from happening in future.
Sorry for any inconvenience!
Thanks to the staff of our web hosts, Acton Web, for dealing with the problem so quickly on their return to work after the new year holiday.
Happy new year to all.
Mattie Long
The Innkeeper’s Story Yes?! A, a bed for the – ? You haven’t a hope! I’ve never seen such crowds in Bethlehem!.. You, your wife is?.. Oh… Is she –…
“the Congregation for Divine Worship try to micro-manage the Church around the world and often fail to understand or misinterpret local custom and tradition.”
Brendan Hoban in the Western People continues to wonder how curial officals fail to see it is their own institutions that are in need of reform instead of tinkering with what is actually still working in the church.
Synodal Continental Assembly of Prague, the commitment of the bishops The bishops of the European continent have undertaken to develop further “a synodal Church,” following the indications of Pope Francis,…
The days we call Lent Chris McDonnell March 6th 2022 La Croix International: We are now in the early days of Lent and the great Paschal feast approaches. These passing…
A change of season The chill, dark soil of winter eases the season change over the folded hills of March. Damp, stained shoes from a walk through frost-flaked grass till,…
Tony Flannery gives a brief report of his recent trip to the U.S.A. “While the U.S. Church is deeply divided, there are some real signs of light.”
