The third of four reports from the Vatican by Brother Mark O’Connor FMS, Vicar for Communications, Diocese of Parramatta and Pope Francis Fellow, Newman College, University of Melbourne. Most of…
As we read the reports about the synodal process, such as my colleague Brian Fraga’s fascinating look at the synodal reports from non-diocesan organizations in the United States, it is clear that…
A poignant farewell to a lifelong friend Western People Sept 6, 2022 I was reading some time ago about a priest who was visiting a colleague in hospital who…
Royalty: The Queen has died. The tributes are plentiful. Even Theresa May has added a comedic flavour to the picnic of celebration. GBS was exasperated. Not with these tributes but…
The mercy of God has no end; even humans who disfigure God’s beautiful creation can turn back to God’s ways and find mercy. We continue to mark Creationtide all through…
a poet remembered Chris McDonnell “Walk on air against your better judgement” Heaney’s tombstone Not many live lives that, in their passing, are so noticed and admired as that…
Western People 30.8.22 Pope Francis’ reforms have received significant, it might even be said overwhelming, support in the reports on the recent listening process carried out in Irish dioceses. The…
Gerry O’Hanlon SJ writing in America magazine: August, vacation time, can often be a quiet time in the news and opinion cycle. But the quiet was disturbed this year in…
Those were the days, my friend: Mikhail Gorbachev has died. Glasnost. Perestroika. Rapprochement. Are recalled. Even if official Moscow TV suggests that Gorbachev had a too romantic view of the…
By Br Mark O’Connor FMS, 1 September 2022 Rome woke up to a typical muggy morning on Wednesday 31 August. It had just seen two intense days of meetings of…
Copied from the Waterford & Lismore diocesan website. The findings from the listening sessions and conversations which took place around the country in preparation for the Synod on Synodality in…
Christopher White, National Catholic Reporter: ROME — While an official communique at the end of Pope Francis’ Aug. 29-30 meeting with the world’s Catholic cardinals only said that participants “freely discussed…
Online talk: Deepening our Connection With Nature – Nellie Mc Laughlin and Jane Killingbeck 31 August 7.00pm-9.00pm. More info / Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/406672366997 Full schedule of events: https://greensodireland.ie/2022/08/22/wild-acres-week-2022-event-schedule/
La Croix International reports: The Synodal consultations hold the promise of meaningful reforms. In that context the Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research has constructed a proposed Constitution for the Catholic…
By Br Mark O’Connor FMS, 29 August 2022 The first of four reports from the Vatican by Brother Mark O’Connor FMS, Vicar for Communications, Diocese of Parramatta and Pope Francis…
The Capuchin Day Centre: Bro Kevin Crowley, of the Capuchin Day centre in Bow Street has left for Cork. The work goes on. That work is a celebration of graciousness,…
A last chance to reform the Catholic Church Western People 23.8.2022 ‘O ye of little faith’, Matthew Chapter 6, verse 30. It isn’t often that I start this column…
Joesph S O’Leary Link to Journal site: https://www.oriens.or.jp/jmj/jmj_recent.html The notion of Truth has surprisingly become a matter of urgent concern in our society, not only because lies have been given…
Great Sport (in recent times): Young Eilish McColgan did well in Birmingham (Commonwealth Games). Gold in 10,000m and Silver in 5000m My mind drifted back to her mother Liz (like…
by Sarah Mac Donald Link to article: https://www.globalsistersreport.org/news/ministry/program-ireland-helps-religious-women-and-men-discern-spiritual-and-pastoral-paths DUBLIN — Sr. Samira Gill, a Presentation Sister from Pakistan, dedicated her life to serving the poor. But that left no time to understand…
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