12th Sunday [A] – 20/21 June 2026
• Day for Life – “an annual event, to celebrate the dignity and value of human life at every stage.”
• This year the ‘Day for Life’ falls on Sun
Anger that we have been robbed of the First and Fourth Eucharistic Prayers (unless we can smuggle back the beautiful 1973 version of the first or the intelligible and usable 1973 version of the fourth
Fr Michael highlights real concerns for priests and religious with increased expectations and demands for an ageing cohort. The ACP has been contacted for advice/help over the years highlighting unrea
"This is the story of a remarkable new technology rolled out in the most reckless, self-serving way one could imagine, by the worst people, for the worst reasons. It’s not the machines you should be
Ron Rolheiser, in his recent article reworks language used in talking about suicide.
He opens a door of compassion and helps the reader to understand the suffering of those who have died by suicide.
Sean, the church spent centuries saying that science, in various forms (Galileo to Darwin), was hubristic and doomed. But the Vatican opened itself to astronomy in a big way, and even to evolution. Le
"If there is someone who should fear the rivalry of AI, it is God..."
As ever, Joe, God is not mocked. Algorithmic sycophancy palls eventually, and our own Christian teachers will soon enough learn
"The Irish Synodal Pathway urgently needs the courage (parrhesia) to engage with concrete realities and situations such as Tony Flannery's."
Yes, without any concrete engagement with real issues t
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