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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…

by JOSHUA J. MCELWEE One of the Catholic Church’s leading doctrinal officials has reiterated his unusual call for the global institution to consider ending its millennia-long requirement that priests remain…

Malcolm Guite: A WhatsApp video appeared on my phone. It was of Malcolm Guite. He was reciting ‘Two Poems for Burns Night.’ The Feast of Robbie Burns was on the…

 Invitation to All Celebrating St Brigid Welcoming the Spring A Liturgical Celebration in Music and Drama With Children’s Choir Young performers and older musicians with unique sound instruments Monday 5thFeb…

Sermon on Fiducia Supplicans I feel rather guilty for the first time about something that happened more than 40 years ago. A priest acquaintance who has left the ministry to marry,…

NCR article: 26 Jan 2024 Divided Christians will draw closer to one another only by loving God and loving their neighbors, serving one another and not pointing fingers in blame…

Western People 23.1.2024 The title of last week’s RTÉ documentary, The Last Priests in Ireland, reflected the grim reality for Irish Catholics – no longer a perception or a wild…

Recommended by a member: Published in paperback, December 21, 2023, ‘Tarry Awhile: Wisdom from Black Spirituality for People of Faith’ by Selina Stone, is the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book…

Bishop Alan McGuckian SJ in dialogue with Sr Denise Boyle on 25 Jan 2024 – We Are Church Zoom: Bishop Alan McGuckian SJ in dialogue with Sr Denise Boyle about…

GREAT SPORT: Ronnie O’Sullivan did it twice in a row. He won the last two tournaments. One was described by Ken Doherty, as ‘snooker poetry.’ Ronnie came from way back…

Western People 16.1.2024 There’s a story told (and it’s true) about a visit the late Cardinal Conway paid to Enniscrone golf club many years ago. An avid golfer, Conway was…

Midnight deliveries as the storm abates. An observation is that when a storm comes slowly it lasts a long time and when it comes quickly it blows over fast. So,…

… words from Gaza 2023- 2024. Gaza This October Monday, October 16th 2023 Hour by hourcountlessmunitions fallin an exchangeof fearsome fire. Smoke eruptsfrom shatteredBuildings hangingthrough the orangeglow of flame. This…