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  • Climate change and the Church OR Climate change in the Church

    October 15 2019
    Mary O'Connor

    As Churches prepare seminars on Climate change, study Pope Francis letter and support Future Fridays movement by the youth would churches be willing to offer a physical space free of charge to EXTINC

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  • ‘What About Me? Women and the Catholic Church’

    October 9 2019
    Mary Vallely

    My first reaction was a “good on them!” This is just so refreshing and uplifting to read. Sometimes however I fear that the very mention of Women in the Catholic Church is as much a turn off as t

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  • ‘What About Me? Women and the Catholic Church’

    October 9 2019
    Pádraig McCarthy

    See: "Women in the Church: Reading the Signs of the Time" on a statement from a meeting of about 100 Catholic women religious in India: https://www.globalsistersreport.org/news/social-justice/news/ind

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  • 20 October, 2019. 29th Sunday (C)

    October 20 2019
    David Lupo

    Thanks for your thoughts!

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  • Young Mr. Newman – St. John Henry Newman

    October 12 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    I see Hopkins taught in the university only from 1884, 26 years post-Newman, so my naughty suggestion above is baseless. Here is the time-line: 1861 – Bartholomew Woodlock appointed Rector and serv

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  • Young Mr. Newman – St. John Henry Newman

    October 12 2019
    Pádraig McCarthy

    The Irish Times article Paddy #3 refers to above is by Katie Ascough, who was formerly president of the UCD students’ union. She was badly treated by the students’ union. Yes, Paddy, the church in

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  • 16 October, 2019. Wednesday of Week 28

    October 16 2019
    Eddie Finnegan1

    Saint GALL (Gallus), saint of the day: If GALL in his hermitage near what became Sankt Gallen on Lake Constance, unable to say Mass for ?three years even in private, got a glimpse of Romans 2:1 in tod

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  • Young Mr. Newman – St. John Henry Newman

    October 12 2019
    Eddie Finnegan1

    In Evangelii Gaudium Pope Francis's four principles, or mantras, include: "realities are more important than ideas". Realities of a University may indeed be more important than the Idea - though nobod

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  • Climate change and the Church OR Climate change in the Church

    October 15 2019
    Mary Vallely

    Don’t worry. No one will be turned away if not registered beforehand. It’s a rare opportunity to meet together outside of Dublin and to engage on matters pertaining to the good of the Church but

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  • Young Mr. Newman – St. John Henry Newman

    October 12 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Colin Barr's devastating account of Newman in Ireland (Oxford Handbook of JHN) ends with this: "As the Irishman Constantine Curran put it, in place of a university Newman 'gave us a book.' It was thou

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