Comments

All recent Comments

  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Seamus Ahearne

    Francis clearly doesn’t like elephants. There definitely was an elephant in the room. Or more likely a stampeding herd of elephants had taken over the Amazon. His dislike of these marvellous animal

    Read more 33 comments
  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Joe O'Leary

    The course of the barque of Peter is firmly set: straight for the iceberg!

    Read more 33 comments
  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Frank Graham

    Fine, eloquent words. Who could not but be inspired by them or not agree with them! But I'm afraid that they will be like 'water off a duck's back' to those responsible for the degradation of the plan

    Read more 33 comments
  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Pat Rogers

    In their well-written piece in the New York Times, Jason Horowitz and Elisabetta Povoledo describe the pope's decision as "a victory for conservative forces who had warned that change there would put

    Read more 33 comments
  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Nessan Vaughan

    Very disappointing, although not surprising. While there are excellent passages on the environment, social justice, inculturation, respect for indigenous peoples, etc, ultimately Pope Francis remains

    Read more 33 comments
  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Iggy O Donovan

    But what did Francis say. Please somebody give us a reasoned summary. My first reading is that he has said virtually nothing that ANYBODY could not agree with. Ecology, environment, indigenous respect

    Read more 33 comments
  • What does it mean to be Catholic today? – We Are Church Ireland

    January 29 2020
    Brendan Butler

    Roy Donovan, is a breath of fresh air within a staid Catholic Church. He identifies the growth and consolidation of clericalism , as Pope Francis constantly reiterates , as a man made structure whi

    Read more 4 comments
  • ‘the world has changed and so must the Church’

    January 22 2020
    George Allen

    Jesus said, "Do this in memory of me", but he didn't say you had to be ordained to do it! The all male clerical caste system seems to me to be a major problem for the spreading of the Gospel. The ear

    Read more 5 comments
  • What does it mean to be Catholic today? – We Are Church Ireland

    January 29 2020
    Joe O'Leary

    I see "Parasite" comes flanked by pedagogic commentaries, which to my mind do not remove the suspicion of meretriciousness.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci-gFovSJf0https://www.youtube.com/watch?

    Read more 4 comments
  • What does it mean to be Catholic today? – We Are Church Ireland

    January 29 2020
    Joe O'Leary

    Thanks, Colm Holmes, for that great video. Everything Fr Roy says is right, but I can hear the clericalist voices dismissing it. I wonder if some of them are still saying, "You don't change a winning

    Read more 4 comments

Categories