Juleiann Moran: Synodal Pathway Update – The Journey So Far
The journey so far… The Synodal Pathway General Secretary, Julieann Moran, takes a look back at the progress of both the Irish Synodal Pathway and the Universal Synod to date…
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Brendan Hoban: Church should not fear its sleeping giant
Western People 6.2.2024 John Henry Newman (1801-90) was a famous Anglican clergyman who converted to Catholicism in 1845, was made a cardinal in 1879 by Pope Leo XIII and was…
Ian Dunn: Synodal Times
The latest Synodal Times newsletter from Ian Dunn has several links worth exploring. Hello Friend,For some months now, the Synod and its possibilities have been overshadowed by Fiducia Supplicans —…
Dominican Order 800 Years in Ireland – Celebrations Sunday 11 Feb
From the Dominican Media Desk Father Gerard Francisco Timoner, O.P., eighty-seventh successor to St Dominic as Master of the Order of Preachers, will celebrate and will preach at Mass in…
Seán Walsh: Departing
May 1980. A phone call from Tom Walsh, my nephew, to say my mother was poorly and would I like to share the journey with him to Ennis to visit…
America Magazine: The Synod on Synodality called for better liturgy. Will anyone listen?
THOMAS J REECE – 8 FEB 2024 (RNS) — One of the surprises to come out of the Synod on Synodality (link below) was a call for better-written liturgies. The final…
Crux: Anglican bishop among the women speaking with Pope’s ‘kitchen cabinet’
By Elise Ann Allen, Feb 6, 2024, Senior Correspondent (Article recommended by Soline Humbert in a recent comment.) Link to article: https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2024/02/anglican-bishop-among-the-women-speaking-with-popes-kitchen-cabinet ROME – After completing a massive overhaul of…
Presider’s Page for 11 February (Ordinary Time 6 / World Day of the Sick)
‘Whatever you do at all, do it for the glory of God.’ The words are St Paul’s, from today’s second reading. We gather here to give glory to God, praying for the sick, marking the Day of Prayer for Temperance and preparing for the Lenten Spring.
Jim Cogley: Reflections Tues 6th Feb – Mon 12th Feb
Tue 6th February – The Great Divide For longer than we care to think there has been in society a huge dichotomy between faith and practice that has amounted to…
Brendan Hoban: Some traditional brands just can’t be sold
Western People 30.1.2024 In the All-Ireland Football Club final last year, Watty Grahan’s Glen (based in Maghera, Derry) fell short by one point. This year, after a titanic struggle that…
ACP’s Roy Donovan is Irish Examiner Podcast guest
The Mick Clifford Podcast: Losing their religion – Roy Donovan Roy Donovan, a priest and member of the Association of Catholics Priests is this week’s guest on the podcast. Last…
Bishop Alan McGuckian appointed Bishop of Down and Connor
Press Statement His Holiness Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Alan McGuckian SJ, Bishop of the Diocese of Raphoe, as the new Bishop of the Diocese of Down and Connor. The…
Peadar O’Callaghan: St Brigid’s Day
Getting your hands on a copy of the novel NIGHT SWIMMERS by Rosin Maguire, published on the Feast of St. Brigid, which I don’t think is a coincidence, might be…
John Shea: Epiphany’s Challenge 2024
Dear Bishops of Asia, The first session of the Synodal Assembly in Rome is now over. The second and final session will be held in Rome this coming October. Again, I…
Peadar O’Callaghan: In the wilderness with Rowan Williams
The books of Rowan Williams I find a huge challenge to read. He is very profound and one of the great thinkers in Western Christianity today and had Joseph Ratzinger…
Presider’s Page for 4 February (Ordinary Time 5)
As we Christians come together for worship, each of us brings worries, anxieties and fears. We gather them all together and entrust them to the one who heals his suffering people.
Julieann Moran: Synodal Pathway Update
Dear friends and colleagues,I have had several requests for summarised versions of the Synthesis Report that was published at the end of October following the month-long 16th Ordinary General Assembly…
Joan Chittister: Vision and Viewpoint, a weekly e-newsletter
Recommended by a member… God understands. Some disciples came to see Abba Poemen and said to him: “Tell us, when we see brothers dozing during the Divine Office, should we…
Seán Walsh: Hail Mary
Hail Mary There was this shrine, as I recall. Oh, well known it was, locally… We walked the three miles, there and back. Out the country. Summer’s day… Me still…
NCR Exclusive: Vatican’s abuse expert says ending priestly celibacy could prevent a ‘double life’
by JOSHUA J. MCELWEE One of the Catholic Church’s leading doctrinal officials has reiterated his unusual call for the global institution to consider ending its millennia-long requirement that priests remain…
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