Communion, Participation, Mission: An Interview with Cardinal Mario Grech
From the Synodal Pathway website: Cardinal Mario Grech, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops, Bishop emeritus of Gozo, was born in Qala, Malta, in the Diocese of Gozo on…
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US University Conference to Honour Pope Francis
St Ambrose University is convening a Spring 2023 conference and celebration to honor 10 years of the papacy of Pope Francis. March 16 – 18, 2023, Davenport, IA REGISTER NOW This…
Bidding Prayers for 5 February (Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time)
BIDDING PRAYERS for Sunday Mass on 5 February Introduction (by the Presider) Let us bring our prayers to the Lord, in whom we place our trust: For peace in the Middle East (pause…
Euro News: Irish Catholic Church in ‘terminal decline’ after sexual abuse scandals
Ireland was once regarded as the most catholic Country in the World. That, though, is no longer the case. (Link to article and interviews at bottom of the page.) Mark Vincent…
Three poems, commissioned by the Dept of Foreign Affairs and the Museum of Literature, to honour St Brigid’s Day.
Old Biddy TalkBy Paula Meehan Have you no home to go to… The young mostly on one another’s screens– but these two rapt in each otherat the boundary wall: that…
Séamus Ahearne: “ Not Stuffy, like going to Mass stuffiness.” (Brendan O’Connor Show)
Brendan O’Connor (Sunday morning 29th January 2023 c 12.30), I was driving away from Mass this morning. The Radio was on in the car. There was a discussion on Classical…
Pope Francis in Africa…
Video News Release: Pope’s visit to Africa -The Pope greets the media on the Rome-Kinshasa flight Watch the video
The role of the bishop in the synodal process
Letter of Cardinals Grech and Hollerich to the Bishops of the World Vatican City, 30 January 2023 On the eve of the celebration of the Continental Assemblies, it is with…
Fr Micheál Mac Gréil SJ 1931-2023
On Thursday, the funeral of a 91 year-old Westport Jesuit priest took place in his native Mayo. The death of Fr Micheál Mac Greil SJ, a noted academic and campaigner,…
We are Church International:
International Online Press Conference
Monday, 30 January 2023 at 11:00 CET
A few days before the start of the European Continental Assembly of the Synod which will take place in Prague from 5 to 12 February 2023, we invite you to an…
Brendan Hoban: Catholic Church has no magic money tree
Western People 24.1.2023 ‘Follow the money’ was the shrewd advice of ‘Deep Throat’, the pseudonym given to the informant who provided information to the Washington Post that unlocked the Watergate…
The AP Interview: Pope says homosexuality not a crime
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as “unjust,” saying God loves all his children just as they are and called on Catholic bishops who support…
America Magazine: Cardinal McElroy on ‘radical inclusion’ for L.G.B.T. people, women and others in the Catholic Church
(On the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul a thought-provoking article on issues facing the Synodal Church.) What paths is the church being called to take in the coming…
WE ARE CHURCH Zoom
Can Ireland learn from the German Synodal Path?7.30pm on Thursday 2nd of February 2023 In Germany an Assembly made up of EQUAL numbers of Clergy and Lay people has been discussing…
Dublin Review of Books: The Catholic Church
by Fergus O’Donoghue Article recommended by Pádraig McCarthy. Link to article:
RTÉ: New Bishop of Ossory ordained in Kilkenny
Updated / Sunday, 22 Jan 2023 23:33 Linkt to article: https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2023/0122/1350229-bishop/# By Ailbhe Conneely Social Affairs & Religion Correspondent Bishop Niall Coll has been ordained as the Bishop of Ossory at the…
The Irish Examiner: ‘First the banks, then post offices … now rural Ireland is losing its priests’
In small rural parishes, the loss of a priest through retirement or death is keenly felt, says Conor Capplis, with the Catholic Church slow to react to a problem they…
Presider’s Page for 22 January (Third Sunday in Ordinary Time)
The people that walked in darkness has seen a great light: Jesus, the light of the world, walks among us, preaching a message of repentance. We gather to listen to…
Séamus Ahearne: ‘And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.’ (Goldsmith)(And Indi’s back!)
The young ones: Jacinda Ardern is resigning as PM New Zealand and as leader of the Labour Party. Her explanation is: ‘There was nothing left in the tank. There is…
Root and Branch Zoom: Archbishop Scicluna, Thurs 19 Jan 7.00pm
TOWARDS A BEATITUDINAL CHURCH Thursday 19th Jan,19.00 London time R&B DIY are delighted to welcome Archbishop Scicluna. Link to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ofu6vpj8vEte-z3z-4BfCxkQj34vCqt94 Charles Scicluna, Metropolitan Archbishop of Malta, is essentially “the church’s top…
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