Further to her post on this site, On Consulting the Faithful (15th September), Soline Humbert was asked to expand on it in the context of the synodal path we are on now.
The original published version is in today’s Irish Times.
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Reflections on COP 26 in Glasgow and the Future Challenges of Climate Change Sean McDonagh SSC The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established by the United Nations Environment…
Brendan Hoban writes in his Western People column of his hopes for a new style of leadership in the church in Ireland.
“What we need are bishops who are secure enough in their own skin to be able to live with ambivalence and complexity……who have the imagination, the creativity and above all the courage not to keep looking over their shoulders to Rome and to confront – respectfully but robustly – those who want to lead us back to the nineteenth century. “
Sarah Mac Donald reports: NCR Online (link below) “Something special happened here,” Archbishop Eamon Martin, president of the Irish bishops’ conference, said at the close of a continental assembly of…
Bishop John Fleming addressing the 300-plus delegates at the Diocesan Assembly Article by Fr Brendan Hoban, as published in the Western People Tues 12th October 2021. Next Sunday, October 17, is…
The Catholic Project at The Catholic University of America is conducting a National Study of Catholic Priests. The study entailed a census of bishops, a nationally representative survey of Catholic…
A change of season The chill, dark soil of winter eases the season change over the folded hills of March. Damp, stained shoes from a walk through frost-flaked grass till,…
