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  • Has the momentum of the Regency meeting dissipated?

    May 7 2013
    Brendan Cafferty

    Every new body starts off with a flourish and a big crowd- remember the PDs filling up Leisureland in Galway,and where are they now ! After the novelty things settle down a fair bit. That is when lead

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  • Has the momentum of the Regency meeting dissipated?

    May 7 2013
    Mary J

    I think that by arguing among ourselves about a "split" is just reinforcing further splits. There can be two groups or there can be more, including all the reform and renewal movements in Ireland and

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  • Abolish the priesthood!

    May 4 2013
    Seáinín

    Good Lord, the last post seems almost representative modern illogicality.

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  • Abolish the priesthood!

    May 4 2013
    mark

    Forgive me for over-extending - I don't wish seem immodest but - the stations of the cross - is it even legal to show infants such gruesome images today? I sincerely hope not.

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  • Abolish the priesthood!

    May 4 2013
    mark

    The Abrahamic religions arose in the East - when women were chattels. Here in the west, from Ireland eastward, women were always revered, and often social leaders. In my sparse understanding of the bi

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  • Abolish the priesthood!

    May 4 2013
    Seáinín

    Another reason why I am not concerned for the future: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgOS9m-SBHg Who would have thought that 50 years after Vatican II there would exist a strong and growing resistance

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  • Abolish the priesthood!

    May 4 2013
    Seáinín

    Indeed mjt, I shall continue to occupy my lofty height and observe the bickering and innovations of the liberals, content in the knowledge that the traditional Catholicism I espouse continues to surge

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  • Abolish the priesthood!

    May 4 2013
    Sean O'Conaill

    Thanks, Joe, for that reference to Romans 3:25. One can see clearly how the 'Letter to the Hebrews' could arise naturally out of Paul's theology, especially in light of the exclusion of Christians fr

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  • Abolish the priesthood!

    May 4 2013
    Darlene Starrs

    Thank you Father Joe for the link to the story about women deacons. Irregardless, of sacramental order or ontological sign, the proposed idea of women deacons, with the understanding, that it is a "de

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  • Abolish the priesthood!

    May 4 2013
    mjt

    So all Seáinín has to do is to sit on his moral high horse and wait for the rest of us here to destroy ourselves, and no doubt he will be shaking his sage head sadly as we go. But never mind, the ge

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