Jim Cogley: Reflections Tues 19 March – Mon 25 March
Note: Since the Family Tree Seminar in Our Lady’s Island for Sat March 23rd was fully booked in a few days another has been scheduled for Fri 17th May. For…
Note: Since the Family Tree Seminar in Our Lady’s Island for Sat March 23rd was fully booked in a few days another has been scheduled for Fri 17th May. For…
BY DAN STOCKMAN, March 18, 2024 Editor’s note: “Evolving Religious Life,” a new series from Global Sisters Report, is exploring how Catholic sisters are adapting to the realities of congregations…
St Patrick, Octagon Monument, Westport, Mayo The Monument: A change on the skyline St. Patrick’s Day, 17th March 1990 was not merely the day to honour our Patron Saint, it…
LANCE ASCENDING… Larry, eh… Lance was a pet name. Ah, if ever there was a hard man! Many’s the session we had in the old days – Oh, what! ‘Gave it a…
Can religious belief as we have known it survive in modern Ireland? As many will know, I have been silenced by the Catholic Church but that isn’t to say, I…
A change of season The chill, dark soil of winter eases the season change over the folded hills of March. Damp, stained shoes from a walk through frost-flaked grass till,…
PRESS RELEASE13 MARCH 2024 On the scale of things, in today’s violent and volatile world, one could justifiably wonder whether access to the arts and the freedom to participate in…
From Commonweal magazine: Fintan O’Toole on the cost of prosperity Paul Baumann, March 12, 2024, Commonweal Fintan O’Toole is a terrific writer, and his We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History…
James F. Keenan March 12, 2024 America Last month in Outreach, a L.G.B.T.Q. Catholic resource sponsored by America Media, I was invited to consider what we as a church might do…
THE REFERENDUM: Politicians are astute. They test the wind. They read the signs. They tune in to the lurking messages of the electorate. They have their surgeries. They have the…
BY KIMBERLEY HEATHERINGTON 12 March 2024 Ireland’s nuns are vanishing. Once boasting a peak number of 13,400 members — in the 1960s — Irish female religious orders today count fewer…
Brendan Hoban recently interviewed Rev Alex Morahan, an Anglican priest in Ballina, Co Mayo for Faith Alive on Midwest Radio. His ministry “began in the RC context, in which he…
Western People , 5.3.2024 When the novelist Philip Roth wrote The Plot Against America in 2004, alternative history fiction was not regarded as a very credible literary formula. Roth imagined…
Tue 12th March – Happiness While beginning to write some postings on the subject of happiness I feel that the term is misleading and we need to define what we…
Press Release 12 March 2024 Pope Francis’ course of reform must continue We Are Church on the 11th anniversary of the election of Pope Francis on 13 March 2024 On…
Knock: We had a splendid turnout for our second round of training on Friday and Saturday at Knock Shrine. Once again, we were blessed with a great mix of representatives…
NEW LEAF A priest from the Redemp’trists gave us the School Retreat at the beginning of Lent. Hell or Heaven for starters, then the limitless mercy of God… Frank Muldoon…
Epiphany’s Challenge 2024 Dear Bishops of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, I am sending you a current letter to Pope Francis and one to the members of his Council of…
Today, on the second day of the Spring General Meeting of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference in Maynooth, bishops call for an urgent and complete ceasefire in Gaza, and an…
Press Release – Tuesday 5 March 2024, Feast of Saint KieranEmbargoed until 11.00am: Newsdesks, Photodesks and Religious Affairs CorrespondentsPope Francis appoints Father Donal Roche as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Dublin…
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