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This is the link to the America magazine article: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/04/02/pope-francis-benedict-ganswein-interview-book-247617 Link to The Tablet article: https://www.thetablet.co.uk/features/2/24212/the-successor-a-papal-past-and-present?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Tablet%20newsletter%204%20April%202024&utm_content=The%20Tablet%20newsletter%204%20April%202024+CID_fef7696c29da052676375c572b15a35c&utm_source=SxTabNews_v1&utm_term=Austen%20Ivereigh

WAC Zoom Thurs 18 April @ 7.30pm with Bishop Brendan Leahy The Zoom will be in three parts: Free admission – to register click on the link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/synod-2024-tickets-861425405577?aff=oddtdtcreator

Colleen Dulle, April 02, 2024 The quarterly meetings of Pope Francis’ Council of Cardinal Advisors generally do not garner much attention, but since last year’s synod, they have made headlines…

In his widely reported recent Chrism Mass homily, the Archbishop of Dublin,Dermot Farrell, put the word chaplain in inverted commas, as in: “The ‘chaplain’ who is a mother can minister…

DON’T TAMPER WITH THE TIME! The clock and nature are in dispute. Nature refuses to accept the changed hour. The heron protests and doesn’t appear. The swans are unsure and…

Note: The Family Tree Seminar in Our Lady’s Island scheduled for Fri 17th May in filling up fast so to ensure a place please book asap. For more details go…

He is Risen! Happy Easter! The One Green, blue, yellow and red- God is down in the swamps and marshes Sensational as April and almost incred- ible the flowering of…

JUDAS RELENTS At the start of 2016, Pope Francis on clericalism – Celebrating Mass in Santa Marta, he cited the return of the remorseful Judas to the Sanhedrin – and…

I return this Easter (2024) to an issue that refuses to hide its face, the continuing fall in the number of priests serving our parishes. We should be considering this…

Audio of Tony Flannery’s talk in Galway on Wed 27 Mar 2024 – The Future of Catholicism. Tony writes: This talk was my first in some considerable time, and dealing…

O King of the Friday whose limbs were stretched on the cross, O Lord who did suffer the bruises, the wounds, the loss, we stretch ourselves beneath the shield of…

Who Set The Table? Were there women at The Last Supper? If not, who set the table? Who laid out the cutlery The cups and plates? Who made sure the…

NCR Online: THOMAS REESE 25 March 2024 After raising expectations with his Synod on Synodality, Pope Francis is punting on a number of controversial issues that the synod process invited…

Holy Week ceremonies will be available online at ourladysisland.ie Holy Thursday 7.30  Good Friday 3pm Holy Sat 7pm Many thanks and a happy Easter, Jim C Entering the way of the…

Western People 19.3.2024 As I write, a sea of daffodils outside the window reminds me that, though yet early enough in the year, Winter has begun to pay its reluctant…

How can Catholicism become more relevant in today’s world? This is the fundamental question that will be addressed by Tony Flannery, the Galway priest who was silenced and forbidden to…

Western People 12.3.2024 As the RTÉ cameras scanned the crowd at the State funeral of the former Taoiseach, John Bruton, it lingered on faces of the great and the good…

Note: Since the Family Tree Seminar in Our Lady’s Island for Sat March 23rd was fully booked in a few days another has been scheduled for Fri 17th May. For…

BY DAN STOCKMAN, March 18, 2024 Editor’s note: “Evolving Religious Life,” a new series from Global Sisters Report, is exploring how Catholic sisters are adapting to the realities of congregations…

St Patrick, Octagon Monument, Westport, Mayo The Monument: A change on the skyline St. Patrick’s Day, 17th March 1990 was not merely the day to honour our Patron Saint, it…