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Courtesy of www.katholisch.de Since last year the German bishops have been working on realigning priestly formation. Now 14 dioceses have decided to cooperate in the final training phase – and…

The death has been announced of Jesuit Bernd Hagenkord following an illness. Last October, Bernd was the ACP Zoom guest on the Synodal process underway in Germany – What Can the Irish Church Learn…

Click on the file below to listen to the audio of  Synodality – a Call to Everyone ACI Zoom discussion – Thurs July 22nd 2021, 8.00 p.m.   led by Dr…

 The St John’s Bible, Minnesota La Croix July 16th 2021   We have, in our small village parish church, the seven volumes, all now commercially available, of the St. John’s Bible, the…

“What do you plan to do with your wild and precious life?”   (M Oliver)   A potpourri of tunes: The Shepherds got a hammering last weekend. My friend Augustine…

Synodality – a Call to Everyone ACI Zoom discussion – Thurs July 22nd 2021, 8.00 p.m. – led by: Professor Tom O’Loughlin As the priestly manpower crisis deepens in Ireland, the…

We should be thanking God for Nphet Western People July 13th 2021 When James Geoghegan, the Fine Gael candidate in the recent Dublin Bay South byelection, was asked during a…

Vatican News reports: Pope Francis publishes a motu proprio on Friday to redefine the use of the pre-Vatican missal granting the decision to allow its use the local bishops. Groups…

(Editor’s note: Fresh comments have been received on this topic, including one from Adrian Egan from Ballyfermot Church, hence moving the issue back to the Homepage.)  BALLYFERMOT LOCALS ARE holding…

The Divine in the Ordinary Amos and John Moriarty: John Moriarty came to mind last weekend as I listened to Amos. The maverick and the whimsical struck me. Somehow I…

America Magazine reports: Washington, Colorado and Oregon are now among the U.S. states that have legalized the process of converting human bodies into soil, a procedure the Catholic Church said fails…

Nuns are collateral damage of Leo’s games Western People 6th July 2021 Do I think that the new maternity hospital costing €800,000,000 of taxpayers’ money should be built on land…

America Magazine reports: The Third Plenary Council of Baltimore concluded in December 1884. Among its results was the standardized catechism known to generations of Catholics as the Baltimore Catechism. This meeting…

Root & Branchers have journeyed  together for a year, discerning our way forward to our inclusive, Lay-led Synod in September. Now we invite you to our last two events before…

RTÉ reports: A Kerry priest plans to use a drone to broadcast outdoor Masses in local cemeteries this month. Fr Patsy Lynch will pilot the drone himself while streaming Mass…

The National Catholic Reporter: SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Bishop Douglas Lucia, whose downtown Syracuse office sits on the ancestral lands of the Onondaga Nation, hopes to meet with Pope Francis “to re-examine” 15th-century…

‘Hard times come again no more.’ (Stephen Foster) We are blessed: The River Tolka beckons me early each morning. The river wakes up and wants me to get up too….

Facing up to our responsibility La Croix July 09.2021 There has been much talk in recent weeks about facing up to our responsibility in the Church. The offered resignation of…

To sidestep the inactive link from the Latest Comments box at the bottom of the homepage the following are the most recent comments linked with the relevant article. On a…

US Bishops’ support of Trump is shameful Western People 29.6.2021 Imagine this scenario. For the June meeting of the Irish Catholic bishops, plans were set in train for the bishops…