Sarah Mac Donald, 08 March 2025, The Tablet Link to article: https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/catholic-church-needs-to-wake-up-to-the-need-for-women-priests Dr Phyllis Zagano, senior research associate-in-residence and Adjunct Professor of Religion at Hofstra University, who was a member…
SPRING IS ARRIVING: As I drove up the streets on Sunday, to meet some families after funerals, I saw the Cherry Blossom and it lifted my heart. The crocuses and…
by Dan Stockman Link to story: https://www.globalsistersreport.org/catholic-sisters-week-defies-stereotypes-telling-real-stories-sisters?utm_source=Global+Sisters+Report&utm_campaign=5d8a69cc75-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_03_06_02_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_86a1a9af1b-5d8a69cc75-230448614 Every year in the United States, Catholic Sisters Week tries to celebrate the amazing story of women religious. But this year’s observance — the 12th…
The Title is ‘Polycrisis’ for the 1st week of Lent Year C 2025. Linkt o sermon:
TREASURES I went for nothing, never knew hunger, ‘had to go without… ‘Old now, the end soon in sight. All these riches, all this wealth… Everywhere I look in this…
I am a married priest with 2 children and 3 grandchildren. I thank Our Lord for calling me to celebrate these two vocations. Both of these sacraments Holy Orders and…
Western People 25.2.2025 Recently I chanced on an article I wrote back in 2013 in The Furrow journal – the year Pope Francis was elected pope. I called it ‘Disenchanted…
The 40-day pilgrimage to Easter that began on Ash Wednesday is just a few days old. We pray that God, who sustained Jesus in his 40 days of temptations and suffering, will support us on our journey also.
Many people think of Lent as a season of paralysing depression. But it should rather be welcomed it as a time of renewal, in which Grace flows more freely. Brooding…
Note: A seminar entitled Personal and Ancestral Healing will be held in Lady’s Island Community Centre on Saturday 8th March from 10am to 4pm. Cost €40 with refreshments included. Facilitators…
Pope Francis has suffered two episodes of acute respiratory insufficiency caused by an accumulation of mucus, which was aspirated both times, according to the Holy See Press Office. By Vatican…
Blenheim Palace lost its golden toilet. Churchill must be shattered. This work of art was called America. It was a fully functional toilet, and apparently used by one of the…
DOUBT What! I get back to Jerusalem to find ye – changed… different almost… quiet… dazed… well nigh in shock… Jesus… What about him?.. What?! Back… back from the dead?…..
Weekly Sunday Homily – Week 8, Year C – 2 March 2025 – Intuitive Link:
Ireland’s four archbishops are scheduled to fly to Rome this week for meetings with the Dicastery for Bishops to discuss Vatican plans to amalgamate more Irish dioceses. Bishops have come…
Invitation to join WAC Ireland Action on INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 8 MARCH 2025 EQUALITY FOR WOMEN IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH Date: Saturday 8 March 2025 Time: 10.30am – 11.30am (meet 10.15am outside…
At times of unease, of climate change and mass migration, could the normalisation of political lying have consequences no one foresees? “That is not who we are,” said Simon Harris…
Western People 18.2.2025 A friend suggested to me recently that what the Catholic Church needed now was a return to the days of religious persecution. There was no sturdy Catholic…
THE THIRD ANNIVERSARY 24TH FEBRUARY: Three years of Russian madness in Ukraine is marked today. The US joined Russia to vote against the UN Resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of the…
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