Brendan Hoban: The need for hope in our troubled world
Western People 25.2.2025 Recently I chanced on an article I wrote back in 2013 in The Furrow journal – the year Pope Francis was elected pope. I called it ‘Disenchanted…
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Presider’s Page for 9 March (First Sunday of Lent)
The 40-day pilgrimage to Easter that began on Ash Wednesday is just a few days old. We pray that God, who sustained Jesus in his 40 days of temptations and suffering, will support us on our journey also.
Joseph S. O’Leary: Happy Lenten Thoughts
Many people think of Lent as a season of paralysing depression. But it should rather be welcomed it as a time of renewal, in which Grace flows more freely. Brooding…
Jim Cogley Reflections – Tues 4 March – Mon 10 March 2025
Note: A seminar entitled Personal and Ancestral Healing will be held in Lady’s Island Community Centre on Saturday 8th March from 10am to 4pm. Cost €40 with refreshments included. Facilitators…
Vatican News: Pope suffers two episodes of acute respiratory insufficiency
Pope Francis has suffered two episodes of acute respiratory insufficiency caused by an accumulation of mucus, which was aspirated both times, according to the Holy See Press Office. By Vatican…
Presider’s Page for Ash Wednesday (5 March 2025)
Welcome to the season of Lent. Today we begin the journey of penance and reflection that will bring us to the celebration of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus at Easter time. On Ash Wednesday, we pray for the grace to keep Lent faithfully.
Séamus Ahearne: The king of Bombast
Blenheim Palace lost its golden toilet. Churchill must be shattered. This work of art was called America. It was a fully functional toilet, and apparently used by one of the…
Seán Walsh: Doubt
DOUBT What! I get back to Jerusalem to find ye – changed… different almost… quiet… dazed… well nigh in shock… Jesus… What about him?.. What?! Back… back from the dead?…..
Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP Leadership, Weekly Sunday Homily – 8th Sunday 2025
Weekly Sunday Homily – Week 8, Year C – 2 March 2025 – Intuitive Link:
Irish Catholic: More Irish dioceses set to amalgamate
Ireland’s four archbishops are scheduled to fly to Rome this week for meetings with the Dicastery for Bishops to discuss Vatican plans to amalgamate more Irish dioceses. Bishops have come…
Invitation: International Women’s Day
Invitation to join WAC Ireland Action on INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 8 MARCH 2025 EQUALITY FOR WOMEN IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH Date: Saturday 8 March 2025 Time: 10.30am – 11.30am (meet 10.15am outside…
Seán Ó Conaill: Renouncing Satan?
At times of unease, of climate change and mass migration, could the normalisation of political lying have consequences no one foresees? “That is not who we are,” said Simon Harris…
Brendan Hoban: Catholic Church needs to offer ‘salt and light’
Western People 18.2.2025 A friend suggested to me recently that what the Catholic Church needed now was a return to the days of religious persecution. There was no sturdy Catholic…
Séamus Ahearne: “No man (or woman) is an island.” John Donne
THE THIRD ANNIVERSARY 24TH FEBRUARY: Three years of Russian madness in Ukraine is marked today. The US joined Russia to vote against the UN Resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of the…
Presider’s Page for 2 March (Ordinary Time 8)
Words matter. What we say has an effect on others, for good or ill. God’s word to us is spoken in Jesus, the Word made flesh, in whose name we gather this and every Sunday.
Tony Flannery: Bishop Willie Walsh RIP
Bishop Willie Walsh, or ‘Willie’ as we normally referred to him – he was the most unclerical of bishops – has died at the age of ninety, having lived a…
Jim Cogley Reflections: Tues 25th Feb – Mon 3rd Mar 2025
Note: A seminar entitled Personal and Ancestral Healing will be held in Lady’s Island Community Centre on Saturday8th March from 10am to 4pm. Cost €40 with refreshments included. Facilitators –…
Update: Pope at Gemelli Hospital, respiratory crisis in the morning
Pope Francis, although in more pain, spent the day sitting in an armchair. Blood transfusions were necessary and prognosis remains guarded. Vatican News 21/02/2025 Doctors: Pope responding to treatment but…
Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP Leadership Sunday Homily
Gerry O’Connor: 7th Sunday Ordinary Time Year C 2025 – the theme is Scope Link
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