In just over ten days time, the Easter Triduum will begin, at sunset on Holy Thursday. Today we pray for all the believers all over the world for whom Easter brings renewal: may we be fit and ready to make a new start when this Lent is over.
Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research Introduction “Catholic moral teaching on [homosexuality] will be intellectually marginalized to the extent that it avoids engaging with the experiences of the people and the…
Association of Catholic Priests Statement on the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) claiming the Church cannot bless same-sex unions. 18th March 2021 The ACP believes that the…
Building a bridge from the past to the future Western People 16.3.21 The pope, someone said to me last week, looked ‘well shook’ after his visit to Iraq. And he…
A Passover Journey-the Seattle Stations Chris McDonnell CT March 19th 2021 One of my pastimes on a holiday by the sea is to spend a couple of hours beachcombing. Depending…
CELEBRATING MASS IN MY OWN HOME Brian Eyre I am an Irish catholic married priest. After receiving the dispensation from celibacy my wife and I got married in the Catholic…
Book Review by Joe O’Leary Theological revisionism is a dangerous investment, and fearless critical negativity can easily lead to shipwreck with regard to faith (cf. 1 Tim 1:19). Tony…
Today, we pause from our lenten penances to honour Patrick, our national apostle. In our celebration of this solemn feast, we worship God, creator, redeemer and sanctifier, who brought our ancestors into the Christian fold through the preaching of St Patrick.
[In this year’s Mass we remember especially the irish diaspora, those exiled abroad, and especially those members of our families who would love to be at home with us today.]
St Patrick’s Breastplate 1. I bind unto myself today the strong Name of the Trinity, by invocation of the same, the Three in One, and One in Three. 2. I…
An Unfinished Symphony Dawdling by the Tolka: The heron and myself have synchronised our arrival times at the Tolka. It isn’t quite similar to synchronised swimming in its preciseness, but…
The Vatican has announced that the church cannot bless same-sex unions. https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2021-03/holy-see-the-church-cannot-bless-same-sex-unions.html Full official text in English: Responsum of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to a…
Austen Ivereigh writes in the Commonweal Magazine: Every new book on the Francis pontificate has the advantage of being more up-to-date than its predecessors, and John Cornwell manages to squeeze in the…
This Sunday we come to the midpoint of Lent. The season is half over, and the celebration of the death and resurrection of Jesus is nearer to us. On this midway Sunday, it is traditional to honour mothers, praying for those still with us and remembering those who have died.
Any Woman by Katherine Tynan I am the pillars of the house; The keystone of the arch am I. Take me away, and roof and wall Would fall to ruin…
COMMUNION Donal Dorr [Started 2 March ‘21] I am an eight-five-year-old missionary priest living in Dublin as a member of a community of nine semi-retired elderly colleagues. We…
Gerard O’Connell reports in America Magazine: The Vatican’s Secretariat of State has issued an instruction regarding the celebration of Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, suppressing Masses said by a priest by…
A loyal custodian of the flame of Vatican II Western People 9.3.2021 When Lahardane-man, John MacHale died in 1881 in his 90th year – after 67 years as a…
Irish Bishops Conference Wed 10 March 2021 Walking Together – A Synodal Pathway leading to a National Synodal Assembly for the Catholic Church in Ireland At our Spring General Meeting…
MARCH 2021 Dear Friends, My ordination class, the class of ‘81, and not a bishop among us. 40 years in ministry through turbulent and changing times. The Ireland of today,…
Perseverance has landed Chris McDonnell CT March 12th 2021 The fourth rock from the Sun, the planet Mars, has for centuries held a fascination for the human dwellers of…
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