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The virtual launch of The Best Catholics in the World  by Derek Scally will take place Thursday March 25th at 7.00pm. Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/95914878888

More rumours of angels The Garden of Eden: David Hockney said that most people wouldn’t notice the ‘Garden of Eden’ if they were walking through it. The world is very…

Úna Agnew’s contribution to CWR Provision of Service Zoom Conference 20 March 2021  Why I became interested in CWR, Communication for Women Religious I became interested in communication for women…

Call for submissions on a new edition of the Lectionary for Mass for Ireland The Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference considered a revision of the Lectionary for Mass during their Spring General meeting earlier this week. The Lectionary for Mass…

Pat Rogers, who is responsible for our daily Homily Resource and Readings, has been a mainstay of our site for so long. It is easy to take him for granted….

Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research Introduction “Catholic moral teaching on [homosexuality] will be intellectually marginalized to the extent that it avoids engaging with the experiences of the people and the…

Association of Catholic Priests Statement on the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) claiming the Church cannot bless same-sex unions. 18th March 2021 The ACP believes that the…

Building a bridge from the past to the future Western People 16.3.21 The pope, someone said to me last week, looked ‘well shook’ after his visit to Iraq. And he…

A Passover Journey-the Seattle Stations Chris McDonnell CT March 19th 2021 One of my pastimes on a holiday by the sea is to spend a couple of hours beachcombing. Depending…

CELEBRATING MASS IN MY OWN HOME Brian Eyre I am an Irish catholic married priest. After receiving the dispensation from celibacy my wife and I got married in the Catholic…

Book Review by Joe O’Leary      Theological revisionism is a dangerous investment, and fearless critical negativity can easily lead to shipwreck with regard to faith (cf. 1 Tim 1:19). Tony…

St Patrick’s Breastplate 1. I bind unto myself today the strong Name of the Trinity, by invocation of the same, the Three in One, and One in Three. 2. I…

An Unfinished Symphony Dawdling by the Tolka: The heron and myself have synchronised our arrival times at the Tolka. It isn’t quite similar to synchronised swimming in its preciseness, but…

The Vatican has announced that the church cannot bless same-sex unions. https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2021-03/holy-see-the-church-cannot-bless-same-sex-unions.html   Full official text in English: Responsum of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to a…

Austen Ivereigh writes in the Commonweal Magazine: Every new book on the Francis pontificate has the advantage of being more up-to-date than its predecessors, and John Cornwell manages to squeeze in the…

Any Woman by Katherine Tynan I am the pillars of the house; The keystone of the arch am I. Take me away, and roof and wall Would fall to ruin…

  COMMUNION Donal Dorr [Started 2 March ‘21]          I am an eight-five-year-old missionary priest living in Dublin as a member of a community of nine semi-retired elderly colleagues. We…

Gerard O’Connell reports in America Magazine: The Vatican’s Secretariat of State has issued an instruction regarding the celebration of Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, suppressing Masses said by a priest by…

  A loyal custodian of the flame of Vatican II Western People 9.3.2021 When Lahardane-man, John MacHale died in 1881 in his 90th year – after 67 years as a…

Irish Bishops Conference Wed 10 March 2021 Walking Together – A Synodal Pathway leading to a National Synodal Assembly for the Catholic Church in Ireland At our Spring General Meeting…