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Western People 20.5.2025 I’m sure that I’m stretching my readers’ interest and my editor’s patience by returning to a papal theme for more times than I care to remember but…

Gerry O’Connor: ‘Hinge Moments’ 6th Sunday Easter Year C 2025

THE VOICE: I was at a Parish Meeting (our Monday session). Pope Bob came up as he has frequently. I told the gathered 15 that there was a spot of…

A New Pope Committed to Synodality On 8 May, the Church welcomed Pope Leo XIV, whose Urbi et Orbimessage from the balcony of St Peter’s made an immediate and moving call to journey…

Western People 13.5.2025 What an extraordinary time the last few weeks have been for the overwhelmingly positive media coverage the Catholic Church has enjoyed. The illness and death of Pope…

Coming Events: A seminar entitled Personal and Ancestral Healing will be held in Lady’s Island Community Centre on Saturday31st May from 10am to 4pm. Cost €40 with refreshments included. Facilitators…

Austen Ivereigh  15 May 2025, The Tablet  Link: https://www.thetablet.co.uk/features/a-pope-of-communion-leo-xiv-and-the-francis-legacy/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Tablet%20newsletter%2015%20May&utm_content=The%20Tablet%20newsletter%2015%20May+CID_fb146b469f3a22d878e7c96285baf616&utm_source=SxTabNews_v1&utm_term=Austen%20Ivereigh The first pope from the United States has made it clear he will build on the ‘precious legacy’ he inherited from Francis…

Matthew Dunch May 15, 2025 Link: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/05/15/pope-leo-rerum-novarum-artificial-intelligence-250689?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2928&pnespid=5qU6VSkZZb9L2PzBrTflE8mNtRX1DZB0IvXhwuJlvgJmevtC4kOWG4ptUu4AF.0yvG9guCNI Pope Leo XIV meets the College of Cardinals in the New Synod Hall at the Vatican on May 10, 2025. In his remarks…

‘Glory’ 5th Sunday Easter Year C 2025

My paintings/images of the Earth are not framed but ‘boxed’. In this way I want to show that the Earth is a gift we receive, a ‘present’ from the Creator…

By Phyliss Zagano Link to ncronline: https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/guest-voices/will-pope-leo-xiv-make-call-women-deacons Yes, our new pope said something about women deacons. He said it is under study.  Anyone looking for a quick answer from Pope…

Taken from Religión Digital this is a letter from a religious sister to Leo our new Pope. Click on the English translation within the link: https://www.religiondigital.org/vaticano/Carta-Papa-Leon-XIV-nuevamente-mujeres-iglesia_0_2778622120.html

Greetings to you all. Hoping you are experiencing these reflections as food for the soul. By passing them on to others they don’t stop with you but take on a life of their…

Novelist Sue Monk Kidd describes why cultivating an image of the Sacred Feminine is so important, particularly for women raised within Christianity: Taken from the website of Richard Rohr: https://cac.org/daily-meditations/why-she-matters/ A…

Mary McAleese is reported as saying the exclusion of women from ordination is based on “fake theology”. Ireland’s former President has formal qualifications in both Civil and Canon Law but…

Saturday, 10 May 2025 Thank you very much, Your Eminence. Before taking our seats, let us begin with a prayer, asking the Lord to continue to accompany this College, and…

Fourth Sunday of Easter – prayers of the faithful Introduction (by the Presider) As the people of God welcomes a new pope, we pray a blessing on the Church and the whole…