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An audio clip of Brendan Hoban speaking about the referendum results on MidWest Radio’s “Faith Alive”..

Apologies that we have to cancel this healing circle. We will be hosting it later in the year. Please keep up to date on the website.

Saints in May 01 May St Joseph the Worker This commemoration, instituted by Pius XII in 1955, proposes the example and intercession of Joseph as worker and provider. On this…

A link to the RTE Prime Time programme “Is the Church verging on schism?”

https://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/prime-time-30003251/10858801/?ap=1

Bishop Dr John McAreavey, at the centre of a controversy, has resigned as the Co Down Bishop of Dromore.

Tony Flannery, on his own website, responds to a letter to the Irish Times from Angela Hanley. Tony suggests that “the organizers of the World Meeting of Families have made a major mistake by redacting their booklet, and getting rid of any reference, by picture or text, to same sex couples.”
Another regular correspondent, Brian Eyre, asks if married priests and their families will be welcome at WMF.

Gerard O’Connell reports in americamagazine.org that Pope Francis has sent “Msgr. Charles Scicluna, the archbishop of Malta and President of the College for the examination of appeals (“in materia delicta graviora,” “in matters of grave crimes”) in the Ordinary Session of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, to go to Chile to hear those who have expressed their wish to submit elements in their possession”.

Chris McDonnell offers a thought on Holocaust Memorial Day – lest we ever forget where hatred and racism lead.

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…