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  • Priesthood and Vocations: Seamus Ahearne

    July 13 2015
    Pól Ó Duibhir

    Eddie @9 I had been using the term "whippersnapper" to describe a member of the Order of Preachers who had a very rude encounter on Twitter with Tony Flannery some time back. Now that I see your comme

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  • Priesthood and Vocations: Seamus Ahearne

    July 13 2015
    Chris McDonnell

    I posted this on another website a few weeks ago. It reflects the open caring that Seamus shows in his comment. "The sharing of the Eucharist in the early Church involved the gathering of the people f

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  • Priesthood and Vocations: Seamus Ahearne

    July 13 2015
    Seamus Ahearne osa

    Re Newmann @ 12 A good friend of mine, (a bishop) wrote some words recently for Corpus Christi. He asked me for my comments. I replied – ‘you cannot write about the Eucharist without recalling yo

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  • Priesthood and Vocations: Seamus Ahearne

    July 13 2015
    John O'Connell

    Well done Seamus

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  • Priesthood and Vocations: Seamus Ahearne

    July 13 2015
    Neumann

    Noel Casey @8: "I would hope all celebrants of funeral Masses ... are aware that the liturgy is the best form of sermon, the best opportunity to catechise". Here's the irony that I see; although it

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  • 16th July. Thursday in Week 15

    July 16 2015
    steven

    Good reflections

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  • Priesthood and Vocations: Seamus Ahearne

    July 13 2015
    Martin

    Maybe Fr Seamus should give consideration to why young priests and religious are "conservative" instead of pathologising them? Maybe the answers of the 60s and 70s are now old hat. We must move with t

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  • Priesthood and Vocations: Seamus Ahearne

    July 13 2015
    MM

    Eddie@9 "The young man assured our friend, quite unabashedly, that our generation had ruined the Church but that his was here to save it." Hard to take, but life will knock the corners off our young f

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  • Priesthood and Vocations: Seamus Ahearne

    July 13 2015
    Eddie Finnegan

    Thank you, Seamus, for another down to earth but inspiring piece. Like Mary@3, many of us would share your concern over some of the very conservative and very fundamentalist new apprentices to priesth

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  • Priesthood and Vocations: Seamus Ahearne

    July 13 2015
    Noel Casey

    'Many have lost the sense of God. Some are totally disinterested.' Perhaps, but Berkeley gave me at least a reason for not being so pessimistic and downhearted. Six of our young people died tragicall

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