PRAGUE: European Continental Assembly: final remarks
We have experienced four days of listening and dialogue based on the resonances aroused by the Working Document for the Continental Stage within the Churches from which we come. As the European…
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Prague: Synod Update: The unity of the Church can only be understood in relation to diversity
Presiding the Holy Mass in Prague Cathedral, attended also by delegates of the Czech National Stage of the synodal process, Cardinal Mario Grech discussed in his homily the relationship between unity and…
Euro Synod Prague update…
Tuesday 7 Feb 2023: Live streaming morning session: Live streaming afternoon session:
Speaking notes from the Irish delegation attending the Continental Assembly of the Synod in Prague
Background This speech was delivered by Julieann Moran and Father Éamonn Fitzgibbon on behalf of the Irish delegation during the second working session of the Continental Assembly of the Synod…
Continental Synodal Assembly for Europe: We have also listened to the silence! We have also listened to the empty chair!
At the opening of the Continental Synodal Assembly for Europe, Cardinal Mario Grech focused on two aspects of the synodal journey experienced so far: the active participation of the People…
Séamus Ahearne: “SOMETIMES I NEED ONLY TO STAND WHEREVER I AM TO BE BLESSED.” (Mary Oliver)
What’s the Story? (1) Mary greets me on a Sunday morning in Oliver Plunkett’s on my occasional visit, with the words: “What’s the story?” On Saturday night last (4th February),…
Synod Prague 2023
European Synodal Assembly, the participants are arrivingThe participants in the European Synodal Assembly, which is being held in Prague from today until 12 February, are arriving. About 200 selected delegates…
Brendan Hoban: exciting new chapter for Killala diocese
Western People 31.1.2023 Sometimes, a picture or even an image, can paint a thousand words. You can fill a room with talk or list all the significant data by quoting…
Presider’s Page for 5 February (Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time)
Over these Sundays, we listen to what Jesus said in his Sermon on the Mount. In today’s liturgy, we hear that we are the salt of the earth and the…
Communion, Participation, Mission: An Interview with Cardinal Mario Grech
From the Synodal Pathway website: Cardinal Mario Grech, Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops, Bishop emeritus of Gozo, was born in Qala, Malta, in the Diocese of Gozo on…
US University Conference to Honour Pope Francis
St Ambrose University is convening a Spring 2023 conference and celebration to honor 10 years of the papacy of Pope Francis. March 16 – 18, 2023, Davenport, IA REGISTER NOW This…
Bidding Prayers for 5 February (Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time)
BIDDING PRAYERS for Sunday Mass on 5 February Introduction (by the Presider) Let us bring our prayers to the Lord, in whom we place our trust: For peace in the Middle East (pause…
Euro News: Irish Catholic Church in ‘terminal decline’ after sexual abuse scandals
Ireland was once regarded as the most catholic Country in the World. That, though, is no longer the case. (Link to article and interviews at bottom of the page.) Mark Vincent…
Three poems, commissioned by the Dept of Foreign Affairs and the Museum of Literature, to honour St Brigid’s Day.
Old Biddy TalkBy Paula Meehan Have you no home to go to… The young mostly on one another’s screens– but these two rapt in each otherat the boundary wall: that…
Séamus Ahearne: “ Not Stuffy, like going to Mass stuffiness.” (Brendan O’Connor Show)
Brendan O’Connor (Sunday morning 29th January 2023 c 12.30), I was driving away from Mass this morning. The Radio was on in the car. There was a discussion on Classical…
Pope Francis in Africa…
Video News Release: Pope’s visit to Africa -The Pope greets the media on the Rome-Kinshasa flight Watch the video
The role of the bishop in the synodal process
Letter of Cardinals Grech and Hollerich to the Bishops of the World Vatican City, 30 January 2023 On the eve of the celebration of the Continental Assemblies, it is with…
Fr Micheál Mac Gréil SJ 1931-2023
On Thursday, the funeral of a 91 year-old Westport Jesuit priest took place in his native Mayo. The death of Fr Micheál Mac Greil SJ, a noted academic and campaigner,…
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Monday, 30 January 2023 at 11:00 CET
A few days before the start of the European Continental Assembly of the Synod which will take place in Prague from 5 to 12 February 2023, we invite you to an…
Brendan Hoban: Catholic Church has no magic money tree
Western People 24.1.2023 ‘Follow the money’ was the shrewd advice of ‘Deep Throat’, the pseudonym given to the informant who provided information to the Washington Post that unlocked the Watergate…
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