Author: Tony Flannery

Here Sean raises interesting questions about the impact of the last twenty years or so on the faith of Irish Mothers.  We are grateful to Sean for raising important questions for discussion on our website.

Following on from Jo O’Sullivan’s piece, this is a further reflection on the Katie Taylor phenomenon;  and this one comes from a man in Bray, Aidan ffrench.  He raises some interesting questions.

Any effort at new evangelisation or renewal of faith in the Roman Catholic Church is doomed to failure unless there is a radical shift to address the dysfunctional magisterial teachings on sexuality.

This came in as a comment on Sean OConaill’ s piece;  but I thought it deserves to be put as a post of its own.  It is very good.

“In the Catholic Church it has often seemed that a sin of the flesh was the only sin, and obedience the only virtue.”  This observation by Yves Congar still seems…

This is a provocative piece from the National Catholic Reporter.  As always, comments will be welcome. Would you agree of disagree?

At the risk of being labelled a ‘heretic’ or ‘schismatic’ Brendan Butler of We Are Church takes up the issue of the ordination of women

Maura Adshead wrote on what being a Catholic means to her. This article appeared in the Irish Examiner of 21 June 21 under the heading ‘Why we need to tackle question of what it is to be a Catholic’. Maura Adshead is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Public Administration and Head of the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Limerick.