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  • Happy Christmas

    December 23 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    I want to take this opportunity to wish all my fellow correspondents on this site a very Happy Christmas. I share below Connie Francis singing The First Noel, the most beautiful rendition, I think, of

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  • 24 December, 2019. Tuesday of Advent, Week 4

    December 24 2019
    Pádraig McCarthy

    David wants to build a house where God will dwell among his people. Instead God will build a house where God will dwell - it will be the House of David which will be the sign of God's living presence.

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  • Christendom no longer exists!

    December 21 2019
    Eddie Finnegan

    Joe@2 asks a good question. But as I am conscious that from among the 1000+ nominal members of this association and site there must be several hundred better equipped to answer that question than I am

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  • Christendom no longer exists!

    December 21 2019
    Frances Burke

    John Paul II was a big fan of Marciel Maciel because he gave huge contributions to the Vatican during his papacy and he "admired the Legionaries’ orthodoxy and ability to produce vocations". "Cardi

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  • Christendom no longer exists!

    December 21 2019
    Eddie Finnegan

    "What to do about Sodano?" asked John L Allen Jr in the NCReporter, May 2011 when Marcial Maciel's staunch defender was already 84. Suppose Benedict were to die suddenly, Allen pointed out, Sodano wou

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  • Christendom no longer exists!

    December 21 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Does anyone else suspect that Turkson and Tagle would create a church far to the right of anything we had from John Paul II or Ratzinger?

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  • Christendom no longer exists!

    December 21 2019
    Eddie Finnegan

    This address is full of meat and quotes or potential quotes. Francis grilled his Curial audiences over the past six Christmas addresses, so now that he has them where he wants them, well done, he can

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  • Lay Involvement in Parishes – ACI Pilot Study

    November 29 2019
    Frances Burke

    I wonder William if that priest realises that the 'rules of the Catholic Church' keep changing. Today it has been announced that one rule that badly needed changing has been abolished. This is welco

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  • Lay Involvement in Parishes – ACI Pilot Study

    November 29 2019
    William Herlihy

    I agree completely with Donal @1 I see one big problem i.e. the Clergy: In my experience, reform is completely dependant on the attitude of the Clergy.I will give just two examples: In my Parish the

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  • 13 December, 2019. Friday of Advent, Week 2

    December 13 2019
    patrick Rogers

    Dear Ann. As a general rule this site uses the new revised standard version for the readings. However we have included the Psalms in the Grail version which is more metrical and pleasing to the ear. T

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