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Breaking with the customs of time It was the title of Edna O’Brien’s (15 December 1930 – 27 July 2024) fourth novel, August is a Wicked Month, first published in 1965…

Irish Times, 1 Sept 2024 – Rite & Reason: If we fail to realise our personal potential on Earth, surely it becomes a possibility in the afterlife The Christian death…

Western People  27.8.2024 I may be wrong but I suspect that few of my readers took in the recent Electric Picnic, Ireland’s biggest outdoor festival. Just over a week or…

Pepe Mujica, Uruguay’s spartan former president and plain-spoken philosopher, offers wisdom from a rich life as he battles cancer. A decade ago, the world had a brief fascination with José…

The Documentary The Last Priests is being shown again on RTÉ 1 television on Sunday 1st September in the evening at 11.05 pm.And The Last Nuns on Sunday 8th, also…

Gerry O’Connor, CSsR and ACP Leadership team: ‘Big Picture’ Homily for 22nd Sunday Year B 1 Sept 2024. Link:

Each year from September 1 to October 4 Catholics join Christians worldwide in celebrating the Season of Creation. Find out how you can get involved in 2024. Link to website, which includes Season…

NCR Thomas Reece Pope Francis has made perfectly clear that he is opposed to ordaining women as deacons. Although I disagree with him, I accept that we are not going…

 Renata Steffens   August 15, 2024 The Diocese of Kilmore is having to rearrange and redistribute priests due to the declining number of available priests in the diocese. “There are simply…

It is not a surprise the number of active priests has been dropping drastically in the past decades. This issue can be seen in every diocese throughout the country, and…

Born in 1936 to Irish immigrants from County Galway, Sister Theresa and her six siblings were raised by their parents in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. She…

After a weekend of festivities, the usual midnight postings have given away to morning deliveries! Strong winds in the area unfortunately disrupted the broadband service making it impossible to transmit…

Western People 20.8.2024 I’m in mildly reminiscent mood this week as, with the recent death of the writer, Edna O’Brien, and the memories it evokes. I recall my student years…

Article from Tony’s blog and The Irish Times. Link to article on Tony’s blog: I was sanctioned for speaking in favour of female priests and changing the church’s teaching on…

These are weekly homilies shared by Fr. Gerard O’Connor C.S.s.R., at the Redemptorist Community, in Scala, Cork, Ireland. Gerry is a member of the ACP Leadership Team. Link:

Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.” It was to this teaching…

Just to let you know that you can tune in to next Sunday Service at 3pm with Celine Byrne Soprano singing and speaking in Our Lady’s Island. Just go to …

Link to article (full article printed below): https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/guest-voices/avoid-extremes-when-dealing-role-religion-politics?utm_source=NCR+List&utm_campaign=3a5b08987e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_08_19_10_38&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6981ecb02e-3a5b08987e-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D The role of religion and politics has always been controversial in America, from its inception to the present day. Many of the…

A note from Julieann Moran, General Secretary for the Synodal Pathway. Dear Representatives, You are receiving this email as you, or someone on behalf of your movement, association, organisation or…

Tues 20th Aug 24 – Biblical Keys to Happiness Fifty years ago, I came to a stage where I was feeling particularly distressed while training for the priesthood in Maynooth…