Author: Liamy Mac Nally

Dear Bishops, Delegates and Representatives, I do hope this email finds you well and recuperated after the summer (albeit a rainy one). Following my “Save the Date” email on 11th July,…

Mention the 11th of September, or 9/11 as it has come to be known, and your memory is likely to flash back to dust clouds filling the streets of Manhattan…

“Something was and is deeply rotten in the State of the Vatican. But what do we do? Where do we go? The answer, we are told is to pray and…

Tues Sept 12th – Western Christianity The Truth Overshadowed Western Christianity has evolved with many serious weaknesses. To name but a few: A focus on original sin at the expense…

Dublin — September 7, 2023 The Irish prelate credited with being among the first to tackle the clerical abuse crisis head-on said he did not believe there will be women…

A SURVEY: A recent Survey was done among frontline Anglican clergy in Britain. The emerging picture is ‘of a group who are demoralised, pessimistic, lacking in vision for a vibrant…

Western People 29.8.2023 Of Ryan Tubridy’s predecessors – Gay Byrne and Pat Kenny ­– on RTÉ radio and television, Gay had effortlessly moved from one medium to the other but,…

Dear Member, After the enforced lull in our activities due to the COVID pandemic over the past few years and buoyed by the success of our last AGM, the good…

Recordings of most Pilgrimage talks and events are  available under Church Services Our Lady’s Island. The one given on Sunday 3rd Sept at 3pm by Tessa Gallagher I particularly recommend for…

Magisterium AI, a ‘digestive’ online processor of church documents, promises to be a useful, if not infallible, point of reference for those seeking clarity on official Catholic church teaching. When…

I am in the course of re-locating out of the house where I have lived for the past seven years, and going through all my ‘stuff’, and I came across…

The playfulness of Gabriel: Gabriel Daly died this afternoon – 30th August. The memories are like an avalanche. They overwhelm the mind. Stories and moments rush back to crowd the…

We have, over many centuries, held islands in a certain awe, places set apart, cut off, inaccessible, remote. Lindisfarne, or to use its familiar name in the North East of…

A KISS: Luis Rubiales made a big mistake. He should have seen, or recalled that he had seen, Pretty Woman. With Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. Julia insisted that a…

Australasian Catholic Coalition for Church Reform (ACCCR) Learning from the women of St Paul Kieran J. O’Mahony OSA (Augustinian) LaCroix International August 28, 2023 The real issue is hearing the…

By Elise Ann Allen  ROME – With rapid advances in artificial intelligence causing both fear and enthusiasm as it pushes the envelope of potential new frontiers in technological progress, a…

Australasian Catholic Coalition for Church Reform (ACCCR) – Webinar Anticipating the First Synod Session – October 2023 with Bishop Shane Mackinlay Thursday 14 September 2023 7.00pm AEST, 6.30pm ACST, 5.00pm…

Francis in conversation with Jesuits in Portugal by Antonio Spadaro, SJ On August 5, 2023, during his apostolic journey to Portugal for World Youth Day, Pope Francis met with Jesuits…

Tue 29th Aug – The Art of Seeing It’s a subtle art, the art of seeing, something we need to learn a lot more about and practice even more. Here…

Western People 22.8.2023 For institutions a sense of entitlement can be the first step to oblivion. We’re special. We’re different. We’re not ‘like other men’. (Luke 18.11) Thus the pharisees,…