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Note: Following some cancellations a few spaces have become available for the Wood You Believe Retreat that will focus on healing both at a personal and ancestral level scheduled for…

Western people 28.5.2024 As a young man, the spiritual writer, Henri Nouwen was travelling around Ireland. In Donegal, he witnessed an ‘Irish’ burial, watching it over a stone wall. What…

How does the pope’s “No” to women deacons fit with the role of women on the agenda of the October Synod May 31, 2024 • For immediate releasePriests’ association asks…

Who is not familiar with the problem of male clericalism in the Catholic Church!? It is repeatedly mentioned by Pope Francis and never missed in any document that reflects the sensus…

Pentecost 2024 Dear President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), In this interim time of the working Synodal Assembly of Bishops, millions of Catholics have…

Association of Catholics in Ireland (ACI) will host Adult Faith Development for the 21st Century Diarmuid O’Murchú ZOOM – Thu June 13th – 8.00 pm Although formal religion seems to…

There are a few lines in one of Eliot’s Four Quartets, The Dry Salvages, where he refers to the edge between land and sea. Link to The Dry Savages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dry_Salvages “…….

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Please note: The Wood You Believe Retreat scheduled for July 16 to 19th in Slí an Chroí Retreat Centre in St Patrick’s College Kiltegan is now fully booked as is…

DONALD TRUMP:  I didn’t think it possible that twelve people could agree, but they did. It happened rather quickly. Donald Trump was found guilty last evening. One of my female…

For anyone interested in a Wood You Believe Retreat that will focus on healing both at a personal and ancestral level there is one scheduled for July 16 to 19in…

From the Irish Catholic Bishops Conference Website: Caption (L-R) Bishop Donal Roche and Bishop Paul Dempsey, new Auxiliary Bishops of the Archdiocese of Dublin, pictured during Trinity Sunday Mass for…

Vatican News reports The Director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, tells reporters that Pope Francis is “aware” of the articles about a closed-door conversation with Italian Bishops,…

EGRETS AND MAN U: The Dutch man was very happy this morning. I met him as I walked back from the beach. He was happy for Erik ten Hag. (I even…

Western People 21.5.2024 A Dublin parish priest recently took exception to what he regarded as critical comments about priests by Pope Francis and Fr Tony Flannery in The Tablet, a…

The Synodal Times May 23 The call for equal rights and the ordination of women is getting louder and louder in the Catholic Church – at least in the West….

The life of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French priest-paleontologist-visionary, suppressed by his Jesuit order for advocating evolution is revealed in a drama of personal awakening, a search for meaning,…

Last Sunday a feature on Lay Led Funerals last Sunday in Killala diocese was broadcast on Midwest Radio’s Faith Alive programme with Monica Morley and Fr Brendan Hoban. It’s part…

RUSSELL BRAND: Was baptised in the Thames recently. Sceptical observers smiled with disbelief at his conversion. There was an easy suggestion that this conversion might be very convenient. I kept thinking…

BY CHRISTOPHER WHITE, Vatican Correspondent, Rome — May 21, 2024 Pope Francis expressed firm opposition to the idea of ordaining Catholic women as deacons in a new U.S. television interview,…