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  • 25 August, 2019. 21st Sunday (C)

    August 25 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Here is an extract from Thomas O'Loughlin, "Theology as a Resource in Christian Discipleship", Japan Mission Journal 73 (2019):205-16. (pp. 214-16)One of the depressing aspects of being a Christian

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  • Another Beginning?

    August 22 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    A great piece, Brendan and thank you. I have taken the liberty of sharing it on the Facebook page of the Scottish laity Network.I highlighted, in particular, the two paragraphs;"What we don’t ne

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  • 25 August, 2019. 21st Sunday (C)

    August 25 2019
    Pádraig McCarthy

    I’d like to suggest a different way of reading the Gospel passage. Immediately before this, Luke presents the parables of the mustard seed and of the yeast in the dough the birds of the air came to

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  • The Problems with Celibacy

    August 5 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/21/at-the-verdict-george-pell-pursed-his-lips-he-was-going-back-to-prisonJoe, this is such a sad story for everyone involved and its a pity there

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  • Another Beginning?

    August 22 2019
    Pat Rogers

    This excerpt from lumen gentium paragraph 37 shows that it deals with fraternity dialogue and obedience.The laity have the right to receive in abundance from their spiritual shepherds the spiritual

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  • Another Beginning?

    August 22 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Vatican II should have been far more incisive in its language and in its practical prescriptions. It relied too much on the good will of clergy and laity eager to interpret its slightest nod and to pu

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  • How do we plan a future? – Cloyne Diocese – The Future

    August 15 2019
    William Herlihy

    Fr Tim,you are an extremely brave man, you personify what being a Shepherd of his flock should be,  You are a voice crying in the wilderness,for the following reasons: 1) The problems with our Church

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  • 25 August, 2019. 21st Sunday (C)

    August 25 2019
    Seamus Ahearne

    MORE STRAY THOUGHTS:A version of Peter Pan:There is a young lady in the parish who usually says to me each morning ‘I will break your neck’ despite the fact that I tell her every day, that I

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  • How do we plan a future? – Cloyne Diocese – The Future

    August 15 2019
    Cainneach O Bradaigh

    We need new conversations, new participants. Einstein says that the mentality that created the problem cannot solve it. New wine, fresh skins. Trust the Spirit. We are seed scatters not controllers o

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  • Another Beginning?

    August 22 2019
    Sean O’Conaill

    So why the endless hiatus on ACP support for Lumen Gentium 37 - by far the greatest threat to Irish Catholic clericalism?Those dogs in the street know this too, or do they?

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