Chris McDonnell: The Seattle Stations of Joan Brand-Landkamer
A Passover Journey-the Seattle Stations Chris McDonnell CT March 19th 2021 One of my pastimes on a holiday by the sea is to spend a couple of hours beachcombing. Depending…
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Brian Eyre: CELEBRATING MASS IN MY OWN HOME
CELEBRATING MASS IN MY OWN HOME Brian Eyre I am an Irish catholic married priest. After receiving the dispensation from celibacy my wife and I got married in the Catholic…
Joe O’Leary – Book Review: Tony Equale’s ‘Arius and Nicaea: Science and Religion in a Material Universe’
Book Review by Joe O’Leary Theological revisionism is a dangerous investment, and fearless critical negativity can easily lead to shipwreck with regard to faith (cf. 1 Tim 1:19). Tony…
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig dhaoibh!
St Patrick’s Breastplate 1. I bind unto myself today the strong Name of the Trinity, by invocation of the same, the Three in One, and One in Three. 2. I…
Séamus Ahearne: God’s work of art, drama, state of chassis and Indi prepares for her 1st birthday!
An Unfinished Symphony Dawdling by the Tolka: The heron and myself have synchronised our arrival times at the Tolka. It isn’t quite similar to synchronised swimming in its preciseness, but…
No blessing for same-sex unions
The Vatican has announced that the church cannot bless same-sex unions. https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2021-03/holy-see-the-church-cannot-bless-same-sex-unions.html Full official text in English: Responsum of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to a…
A Welcome Interruption – ‘Church, Interrupted’…by John Cornwell – a review
Austen Ivereigh writes in the Commonweal Magazine: Every new book on the Francis pontificate has the advantage of being more up-to-date than its predecessors, and John Cornwell manages to squeeze in the…
Mother’s Day Poem by Katherine Tynan – Any Woman
Any Woman by Katherine Tynan I am the pillars of the house; The keystone of the arch am I. Take me away, and roof and wall Would fall to ruin…
Donal Dorr: Exploring Participative Eucharistic Celebrations on Zoom…
COMMUNION Donal Dorr [Started 2 March ‘21] I am an eight-five-year-old missionary priest living in Dublin as a member of a community of nine semi-retired elderly colleagues. We…
The Vatican restricts Traditional Latin Mass and suppresses private Masses at St. Peter’s Basilica
Gerard O’Connell reports in America Magazine: The Vatican’s Secretariat of State has issued an instruction regarding the celebration of Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, suppressing Masses said by a priest by…
Brendan Hoban: Enda McDonagh was a loyal custodian of Vat 11
A loyal custodian of the flame of Vatican II Western People 9.3.2021 When Lahardane-man, John MacHale died in 1881 in his 90th year – after 67 years as a…
Irish Bishops Announce National Synodal Assembly
Irish Bishops Conference Wed 10 March 2021 Walking Together – A Synodal Pathway leading to a National Synodal Assembly for the Catholic Church in Ireland At our Spring General Meeting…
40 Years Ordained – “and not a bishop among us …”
MARCH 2021 Dear Friends, My ordination class, the class of ‘81, and not a bishop among us. 40 years in ministry through turbulent and changing times. The Ireland of today,…
Chris McDonnell’s weekly ‘Catholic Times’ column – Mars, you’ll never walk alone…
Perseverance has landed Chris McDonnell CT March 12th 2021 The fourth rock from the Sun, the planet Mars, has for centuries held a fascination for the human dwellers of…
Free Zoom Event: Doris Reisinger (Wagner) – Abuse and Reform in the Catholic Church
Doris Reisinger (Wagner) “Abuse and Reform in the Catholic Church” Followed by Q & A 7.30 – 9.00pm Monday 15th of March 2021 Online ZOOM event Doris Reisinger (Wagner)…
Séamus Ahearne: Horses, courses, herons and Indi … and more!
A medley of disparate sounds The rising sun: ‘That they may face the rising sun.’ (McGahern). I did that, this morning. It appeared over the horizon. It was a glowing…
International Women’s Day – March 8th
Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them,…
International Women’s Day – 8 March – We Are Church and Catholic Women’s Council press release
International Women’s Day: “No Woman, No Church” Prayer and Video To celebrate International Women’s Day we offer a Prayer and video for the full Equality of Women in the Catholic…
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