Author: Liamy Mac Nally

We often use the phrase about a football crowd ‘raising the roof’ with noise at a match. It is an expression of excitement and enthusiasm that all can share. But apart…

By Christopher White Rome — May 8, 2024 Catholicism must rid itself of the “heresy of triumphalism” if it is to become more synodal and better able to evangelize in…

If the earliest Christians were given new life by Jesus’ life, death and resurrection, and a vision of a new creation in a violent world now passing away, why should…

Western People, 30.4.2024 When I was 13 or so and a boarder in St Muredach’s College I was given the honour of serving Mass every morning for the then bishop…

Newman Association, Monday 15 April, 2024 Mayfield Salisbury Church, Edinburgh The Bible:  A Mosaic Introduction In art, a mosaic is a surface which has been decorated, beautifully decorated, with coloured,…

Note: The seminar on Healing the Family Tree scheduled for Friday May 17th in Lady’s Island is fully booked. Another is planned for Saturday June 15th and is filling fast….

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FIRST COMMUNION Here, I have it here! First Communion photo.Jenny looking out from ‘neath a veil:open-eyed… trusting… distrusting… unaware of what was out there, what lay ahead… in the world…

Two crucial post-Resurrection stories of Jesus are centred on the sharing of a meal, supper after the journey to Emmaus and breakfast by the lake of Tiberias . The offering…

The Leaving of Leo: Leo Varadkar was on The Late Late Show last evening. I never watch the Show but tuned in to see and hear, what Leo had to…

From this life to Life Eternal, 24.4.2024 Many will remember her as Ann Walsh. Friends, neighbours, family… A wife who saved her husband from himself, gave their Dad back to…

The next meeting of our Edinburgh Newman Association is on Monday evening next, May 6th. at 7.30pm at our usual venue, Mayfield/Salisbury Church of Scotland, 18 West Mayfield, Edinburgh EH9…

ROOT & BRANCH Community international grassroots community for an inclusive, just & safe Catholic Church.  hello@rootandbranchsynod.org                  www.rootandbranchsynod.orgNo. 119   26/04/2024 FLOURISH AND THRIVEDear friends,We’re delighted to be able to announce…

Western People 23.4.2024 If memory serves me right, the song ‘Fools rush in where angels fear to tread’ was issued as a single by Glenn Miller and his Orchestra in…

Note: The seminar on Healing the Family Tree scheduled for Friday May 17th in Lady’s Island is fully booked with a waiting list. Another is planned for Saturday June 15th…

The Catholic Herald Link: https://catholicherald.co.uk/new-catholic-lectionary-for-british-churches-approved-by-vatican/?swcfpc=1 April 18, 2024 at 8:30 am A new Lectionary will come into use in parishes in England, Wales and Scotland from Advent 2024. The Vatican’s…

The names of the months of the year are in themselves evocative of mood, climate, event and experience. Yet depending on where you live on our planet, the same month…

Pen Pal I lived a lot in my head, as a lad. Like, I was the last in the –  brothers and sisters well ahead of me.  They were stretching…

Around 1,400 people from all over the world are expected to gather online to put synodal methodology into practice, with a focus on the participation of women in a synodal…