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The Irish Times reports: The death has taken place of Msgr Tom Stack, former parish priest at Milltown in Dublin, regular contributor to The Irish Times and frequent guest on radio…

Taken from  https://www.tonyflannery.com/blog/ My initial thoughts on the new appointment to head of Dublin Archdiocese. It is no surprise to me, or, I’m sure to most people, that the choice…

When There Was No Room At The Church Inn And A Wise Woman Came With A Gift Twenty five years ago today a friend of mine, a missionary sister returning…

We need a new kind of Crib? Scholars tell us that the nativity scene in the Matthew and Luke infancy narratives is not historical but religious myth/stories to convey that…

America Magazine reports: BERLIN (CNS) — In a wide-ranging interview, the head of the German bishops’ conference called for far-reaching changes to the Catholic Church and criticized the Vatican’s treatment…

The Holy Father, Pope Francis, has appointed the Most Reverend Dr Dermot Farrell, until now Bishop of Ossory, as Archbishop of Dublin. https://www.catholicbishops.ie/2020/12/29/pope-francis-appoints-bishop-dermot-farrell-as-the-new-archbishop-of-dublin/   Address of Bishop Dermot Farrell on…

Finding a calm, silent place this Christmas Western People Dec 22nd 2020   As everyone keeps saying, Christmas 2020 won’t be a ‘normal’ Christmas. As if we need to be…

  Wishing you a blessed Christmas and peaceful New Year Unto Us… Past the inn with ne’er a vacancy, raucous revelry, receding… Around the back to the stables. Animals stirring……

Stray thoughts – A Reflection for the Season Paddy Kavanagh, wrote often and beautifully about the meaning of Christmas and the presence of God in our lives. For Kavanagh, childhood,…

National Catholic Reporter – by Joshua McElwee ROME — The Vatican’s doctrinal office issued a note Dec. 21 saying it is “morally acceptable” for Catholics to take vaccines against the…

“Christianity’s true and unique story line has always been incarnation. That means that the spirit nature of reality (the spiritual, the immaterial, the formless) and the material nature of reality…

For Mayo GAA is about more than just sport        Western People 15.12.2020 As we slide towards the end of a nightmare year and long for the optimism (if not hope)…

  Listen! Chris Mc Donnell CT December 18 2020 In these days before Christmas, share these few words with your children and grandchildren, the story of the Jesus Child. Listen,…

We Remember Maynooth The College that Never Knew my Name – A sort-of book review Martin is the name that appears on my birth cert, and as a consequence now…

Click on the link below to bring you to the audio of Tina Beattie‘s Zoom presentation on Tues Dec 15th 2020 on the Church in Britain. This is part of…

Portraits of the Artist…… Sporting Heroes: It is a sad and sobering morning. Clashmore-man Tadgh de Búrca is seeing the medics. Some of us – as Waterford dreamers, can delude…

Reopening churches is not the wisest move       Western People 8.12.2020 As I write I’m aware that those who read these words will know if Mayo will be…

 Association of Catholic Priests cordially invites you to a members Zoom presentation What can the Irish Church learn from Britain? with British academic, writer and theologian Tina Beattie on  Tuesday…

An Invitation and Proposal: Brendan Hoban has written a book – A Priest’s Diary. It is now into its second printing. Many have bought the book and presumably some have read…

  Jean Donovan ‘They Don’t Shoot Blond, Blue-Eyed Americans’: Remembering Jean Donovan on the 40th Anniversary of her Martyrdom. by Fr Liam Power, Waterford News & Star I was watching…