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Western People 9.7.2024 The word is that sadness is making a comeback. For years we’ve dismissed any display of tears as a sign of weakness or a form of posturing….

Association of Catholic Priests Statement On Refusing the Eucharist to a Public Representative 14 July 2024 The refusal of the Eucharist to a public representative in the Diocese of Cloyne…

The Instrumentum Laboris for the Second Session of the Synod in October talks about the different perspectives from which the mission of the Synod is to be progressed. Among these…

The inaugural St Thérèse International Day at Knock Shrine will be held on Sunday 14th July 2024. A film on St Thérèse will run on a loop from 10am –…

By John Lavenburg, 9 July 2024, National Correspondent  Link to article: https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-usa/2024/07/left-leaning-priests-association-says-they-cant-participate-in-national-eucharistic-congress NEW YORK – An association of American Catholic priests claims that its offer to participate in the upcoming…

XVI ORDINARY GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE SYNOD OF BISHOPS How to be a missionary synodal Church Instrumentum laboris for the Second Session (October 2024) Link to full details: https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2024/07/09/0560/01156.html#en Link from…

Western People 2.7.2024 Three weeks ago in this space I wrote about the organised attempt by extreme traditionalists in the Catholic Church to undermine the reforms that Pope Francis is…

An insider piece: set in a friary in Dublin, Ireland, in the late 60’s.A play centred on friars living in community – in poverty, chastity and obedience – in the…

Belief was more than blank decision. And this heart was silly with the joy of Christ. His light was everywhere: along untarred roads by spread of gorse, In meadows overspilling…

Tuesday July 9th– Mother Relationship We all have one, and to her we owe our very existence. Throughout life she remains that hugely influential relationship in our lives, whether she…

Western People 25.6.2024 One of my favourite columnists is Liz Dodd who writes for The Tablet, an English Catholic paper, and sometimes in The Sunday Times. Liz is a young…

Please note: Daily services are available at ourladysisland.ie  The weekday Masses are at 10am and Sunday at 11am. This Wednesday the first of month at 3pm there is a Healing…

Tony Flannery documentary on TG4 to be shown again this Wednesday 3rd July 2024 @ 9.30pm There are two lines at the end of the documentary that say: Iarradh ar…

Sean Ó Conaill: Retired teacher of high school history and author. Now editing here (personal website) and on acireland.ie – and campaigning for immediate implementation of Article 37 of Vatican…

STORM TROOPER Ah, years ago, now. I checked into an inner city hospital: gaunt, red-bricked, Victorian. Creaking all the way from Main Entrance to X Ray, Reception to Theatre, Canteen…

Western People 18.6.2024   In the end the results of the local and European elections were all about trust. Trust ­– and the lack of it. A sub-text is how sophisticated Irish…

Eunan O’Donnell founded a secondary school in Dungloe back in 1956, which gave many young boys and girls the chance of a continued education which they otherwise would never have…

This weeks reflections about dealing with difficult emotions are a compilation of writings taken from several sources, one of them being Richard Rohr,  combined with much of my own material…

Statement from the Irish Bishops Conference on proposed legislation on assisted suicide and euthanasia. Freedom to Live Fully, Until Death Comes: “Every human person possesses an infinite dignity, inalienably grounded in…