Brendan Hoban offers his thoughts, in his weekly Western People column, on Mary Kenny’s ‘Something of Myself and Others’. He says it is an entertaining and worthwhile read, surely the best insight there is into the life of the carer. Kenny dissects compellingly, in this brutally honest memoir, the lived experience of a carer’s life.
Hannah Roberts reports from Rome for The Tablet that Italian Bishop Nunzio Galantino wants the church to listen to diverse opinions of topical matters.
This is a summary of the meetings I have had and the impressions I have gleaned from them. I call it my ‘ministry’!
With a total Catholic population in Ireland of 4,635,178, there are 2050 priests active. This means that, on average, there is one priest for every 2,261.06 Catholics.
Pádraig McCarthy
The Dalgan Summer School 2014 is organised by the Columban Ecological Institute, Dalgan Park, Navan, under the direction of John Feehan.
In rejecting a version of Catholicism that diminished human freedom, led to outrageous scandal and that in retrospect is now seen to have diminished people and Church, Irish society seems intent on categorising religion and spirituality as unacceptable, irrelevant, even dangerous in a civilised society.
Brendan Hoban, in this reflection published in the Western People, explores what it is about Good Friday that still resonates with our lives.
It would be difficult for us to continue operating normally without using banking services. Do we, or should we, have an ethical issue with the banking services we use as individuals and as a church?
Padraig McCarthy
We are grateful to Paddy Ferry for sending us this tribute to a great man and priest, Canon Michael Cassidy
Brendan Hoban in his Western People article reflects on what we can all learn from how authorities handled the whistleblowers in An Garda Siochána.
Mary Vallely, who states she’s a JC fan (yes, both!), would like to share this reflection for Lent.
On the Feast of the Annunciation this article might give an impetus to the discussion on women’s contribution to salvation history
Brendan Hoban’s article in The Western People argues that Irish Bishops may be too careful and too averse to risk. Instead, he says, they need to give the type of leadership people are asking for.
The ACP Leadership Team publish the results of the Synod questionnaire published on the ACP website before Christmas. Exactly 1,562 replied to the questionnaire, the results of which are being shared with the Synod organisers in Rome.
For Funerals For Weddings For other Occasions Here are some pieces from Fr. Tom Cooney OSA, Fr. Flor McCarthy SDB, Tommy Lane and John O’Connell. More current material will hopefully…
Brian Fahy asks priests to consider how well we speak to our gathered people at Mass. A former teacher of homiletics, he asks how important public speaking is in the training of priests today.
Rev. Michael G. Ryan, pastor of St. James Cathedral in Seattle since 1988, serves on the board of the national Cathedral Ministry Conference.
This article was published in America magazine
By MIchael Commane This might well be the end of me as a priest in the Holy Roman Catholic Church. I sort of jest. Only ‘sort of’. I was ordained…
This is an interesting email that one of our members got from a parishioner in relation to the new responses at Mass. Maybe it is something we priests might keep in mind.
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