“THE CURIA IS THE POPE” is a new book that uncovers a little history, theology, and sociology, and justifies the impatience of the faithful with the self-serving bureaucracy that…
Show yourself to me Lord Chris McDonnell CT January 08 2021 We have celebrated again the feast of Nativity, the coming of the Lord into the poverty of this…
THE FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY Adventurers It is a wonderful feast. It has to be properly celebrated. The dangerous temptation is that we can sentimentalise religion. We can easily get…
Interview: Dublin Archbishop-elect Dermot Farrell with Patsy McGarry, The Irish Times. Installation going ahead on February 2nd. “There’ll be no big hand-over…show papal bull (making the appointment) to College of…
Press Statement from Tony Flannery 3rd January 2021 In the last while two senior members of the Catholic Church have made statements about the position of women in the…
Seán MacDonagh’s article from The Tablet 30 Dec 2020: The year ahead: the environment “Humanity is waging war on nature. This is suicidal. Nature always strikes back – and it is already…
Association of Catholic Priests statement on RTÉ’s New Year’s Eve Programme Saturday 2nd January 2021 The ACP, on behalf of its member and Christians of all denominations, would like…
Covid-19 thrives when people are selfish Western People 29.12.2020 It was a conversation about selfishness. Grandparents and their adult children were talking about that unending topic – ‘Young people today’….
A member subscribes: There are times when I think all our efforts at calling for reform in the church are really at an amateur level when compared with those who…
Janus: Looks to the past. Looks to the future Hidden language: The Tolka. The river was slurping. Or gurgling. Or maybe even gargling. I think it was probably spluttering. Each…
This Christmas Season Chris McDonnell CT January 01 2021 Christmas has been different this year. Much of the spontaneity has been missing. The gathering of friends at short notice for…
The Irish Times reports: The death has taken place of Msgr Tom Stack, former parish priest at Milltown in Dublin, regular contributor to The Irish Times and frequent guest on radio…
Taken from https://www.tonyflannery.com/blog/ My initial thoughts on the new appointment to head of Dublin Archdiocese. It is no surprise to me, or, I’m sure to most people, that the choice…
When There Was No Room At The Church Inn And A Wise Woman Came With A Gift Twenty five years ago today a friend of mine, a missionary sister returning…
We need a new kind of Crib? Scholars tell us that the nativity scene in the Matthew and Luke infancy narratives is not historical but religious myth/stories to convey that…
America Magazine reports: BERLIN (CNS) — In a wide-ranging interview, the head of the German bishops’ conference called for far-reaching changes to the Catholic Church and criticized the Vatican’s treatment…
The Holy Father, Pope Francis, has appointed the Most Reverend Dr Dermot Farrell, until now Bishop of Ossory, as Archbishop of Dublin. https://www.catholicbishops.ie/2020/12/29/pope-francis-appoints-bishop-dermot-farrell-as-the-new-archbishop-of-dublin/ Address of Bishop Dermot Farrell on…
Finding a calm, silent place this Christmas Western People Dec 22nd 2020 As everyone keeps saying, Christmas 2020 won’t be a ‘normal’ Christmas. As if we need to be…
Wishing you a blessed Christmas and peaceful New Year Unto Us… Past the inn with ne’er a vacancy, raucous revelry, receding… Around the back to the stables. Animals stirring……
Stray thoughts – A Reflection for the Season Paddy Kavanagh, wrote often and beautifully about the meaning of Christmas and the presence of God in our lives. For Kavanagh, childhood,…
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