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The President, Michael D. Higgins, met with the authors of ‘A Dialogue of Hope’.

Sarah McDonald reports in catholicireland.net on the talk given by Gabriel Daly at a recent ‘We Are Church’ function.
“Some powerful traditionalists in the Church are ‘dedicated to obstruction of all reform’ and could force ‘a severe division’ within the Church, even setting up ‘a schismatic Church’, a leading theologian has warned.”

Report from Papal flight to Rome from Peru by Junno Arocho Esteves
Catholic News Service

Sean McDonagh and the 10 contributors to the book Laudato Si’ An Irish Response were invited to visit the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins at Áras an Uachtaráin on Thursday, 18 January, 2018

This article was submitted by John O’Laughlin Kennedy on behalf of ‘Christians United in Prayer’.
Christian Unity Week runs from January 18th to 25th, and the plan is to welcome people from other denominations to our churches or meeting places to pray for church unity, for peace, and for blessings on one another. The unity we are praying for is the unity that Jesus prayed for, the unity of caring love.

Lecture on “Difference, Division and Acceptance of Diversity” by Gabriel Daly, organised by We Are Church Ireland.
15 January at 7.30 p.m. In Mercy Centre International, 64a Lr Baggot Street, Dublin 2

Any clergy seeking a supply priest to conduct liturgies for their parish or community can have their requests posted here. Posts should always include the relevant dates, the church’s location…

Annual LGBT Christmas Carol Service
09 December, 8.00 p.m.
Unitarian Church, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin.

Bishop Lobinger (South America) has written creatively about the future of ministry in the Catholic Church, in view of the impending, or real, shortage of priests in many parts of…

With acknowledgement to La Croix, this article is a disturbing account of the impact of clerical sex abuse on the Australian Church. It is crystallised in the trial of George…

Phil Greene, an occasional commentator on this site, attended the conference, and has sent us these notes to give some idea of what went on. Like Phil, I too found…

What happened to God’s policemen When we sense that there’s something strange going on under the surface and we’re not quite sure what it is, we often turn to writers…

Statement issued by Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan on HPV vaccines, 02 October 2017

The ACP offers sincere sympathy to our colleague Brendan Hoban and to his extended family on the death of his brother, Seamus.

Killeagh-inch Spiritfest 2017 Friday 22 September Fr Jerry O Hanlon S.J. Topic: The Quiet Revolution of Pope Francis & the Irish catholic Church. (What can we do – Bishops, Priests,…

Brendan Hoban responds to recent articles in The Furrow. He says he takes the opportunity “of setting out … the policy of the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) in choosing particular issues and in robustly arguing our positions.”

Padraic McCarthy, on seeing that the Presider’s Page has greetings in various languages for visitors to our churches or celebrations, submitted a selection of greeting notices he has come across on his travels.
With some adaptations they might be useful to you.

Apology. Site off line from 31 December until 03 January 2017.

A peaceful Christmas to all

Homily at Peter’s funeral [by Seamus Ahearne osa] I arrived very early here on this cold morning; went in a got a coffee at Greg’s; the woman there didn’t understand…