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Feb 14th is Valentine’s Day so all of this week’s postings are reflections on the nature of Love. They are taken mainly from many of the great minds down through…

Here’s the Thing! “But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen.” (Matt 6: 6) Unseen – but there for…

The Journal reports: https://www.thejournal.ie/religious-publiosher-veritas-to-begin-winding-down-6295340-Feb2024/#:~:text=It%20is%20Ireland’s%20leading%20religious,by%20the%20end%20of%202024%E2%80%B3. VERITAS HAS ANNOUNCED it is set to wind down its business operations and close its retail outlets. It is Ireland’s leading religious publisher and retailer of…

The journey so far… The Synodal Pathway General Secretary, Julieann Moran, takes a look back at the progress of both the Irish Synodal Pathway and the Universal Synod to date…

Western People  6.2.2024 John Henry Newman (1801-90) was a famous Anglican clergyman who converted to Catholicism in 1845, was made a cardinal in 1879 by Pope Leo XIII and was…

The latest Synodal Times newsletter from Ian Dunn has several links worth exploring. Hello Friend,For some months now, the Synod and its possibilities have been overshadowed by Fiducia Supplicans —…

From the Dominican Media Desk Father Gerard Francisco Timoner, O.P., eighty-seventh successor to St Dominic as Master of the Order of Preachers, will celebrate and will preach at Mass in…

May 1980. A phone call from Tom Walsh, my nephew, to say my mother was poorly and would I like to share the journey with him to Ennis to visit…

THOMAS J REECE – 8 FEB 2024 (RNS) — One of the surprises to come out of the Synod on Synodality (link below) was a call for better-written liturgies. The final…

By Elise Ann Allen, Feb 6, 2024, Senior Correspondent (Article recommended by Soline Humbert in a recent comment.) Link to article: https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2024/02/anglican-bishop-among-the-women-speaking-with-popes-kitchen-cabinet ROME – After completing a massive overhaul of…

Tue 6th February – The Great Divide For longer than we care to think there has been in society a huge dichotomy between faith and practice that has amounted to…

Western People  30.1.2024 In the All-Ireland Football Club final last year, Watty Grahan’s Glen (based in Maghera, Derry) fell short by one point. This year, after a titanic struggle that…

The Mick Clifford Podcast: Losing their religion – Roy Donovan Roy Donovan, a priest and member of the Association of Catholics Priests is this week’s guest on the podcast. Last…

Press Statement His Holiness Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Alan McGuckian SJ, Bishop of the Diocese of Raphoe, as the new Bishop of the Diocese of Down and Connor.  The…

Getting your hands on a copy of the novel NIGHT SWIMMERS by Rosin Maguire, published on the Feast of St. Brigid, which I don’t think is a coincidence, might be…

Dear Bishops of Asia, The first session of the Synodal Assembly in Rome is now over. The second and final session will be held in Rome this coming October. Again, I…

The books of Rowan Williams I find a huge challenge to read. He is very profound and one of the great thinkers in Western Christianity today and had Joseph Ratzinger…

Dear friends and colleagues,I have had several requests for summarised versions of the Synthesis Report that was published at the end of October following the month-long 16th Ordinary General Assembly…

Recommended by a member… God understands. Some disciples came to see Abba Poemen and said to him: “Tell us, when we see brothers dozing during the Divine Office, should we…

Hail Mary There was this shrine, as I recall. Oh, well known it was, locally… We walked the three miles, there and back. Out the country. Summer’s day… Me still…