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  • Lay catholics should nominate new bishops

    January 10 2019
    Frances Burke

    The video included within this article is shocking viewing. "Catholic men, truly Catholic men" take off for places like Latin America and the Philippines, "where you can find, fairly easily, wonderfu

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  • How to tackle the clerical abuse scandal.

    January 2 2019
    Rory Connor

    1. FR Joe. I have read Peter Steinfel’s long article in Commonweal and need to reread it together with related articles in America magazine and elsewhere. However before this thread goes off the fro

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  • Make Love Not War: 1966

    January 13 2019
    Mary Vallely

    “Ministry will always be demanding prophetic action. The Church and its ministers has to reclaim its humour, its humanity, its humility.”“Our play with contraception; with virginity; with celi

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  • The Quiet Revolution of Pope Francis: A Synodal Catholic Church in Ireland? A Talk by Gerry O Hanlon

    January 7 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    Mary, we are also looking forward to hearing Gerry speak, in Edinburgh, invited by our Newman Association, on Tuesday, February, 12th.

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  • 14 January. Monday of Week 1

    January 14 2019
    Jaison Thomas

    I would like to receive the above relection regularly. Thsnk you. Fr. Jaison Thomas Don Bosco Calcutta.

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  • 13 January. The Baptism of the Lord

    January 13 2019
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Preface: "Father, in the waters of the Jordan ... you revealed a new Baptism." The baptism of Jesus goes beyond John's baptism. "You are my son, the beloved. My favour rests on you." (Some manuscripts

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  • How to tackle the clerical abuse scandal.

    January 2 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    I hope you've all read Peter Steinfels' analysis of the Philadelphia Report in Commonweal (it's a bit like Padraig McCarthy's "Untold Story" on the Murphy Report).Despite Steinfels' meticulous refut

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  • How to tackle the clerical abuse scandal.

    January 2 2019
    Rory Connor

    Phil - This is from John L Allen's article in Crux that you link to: While that comes off as a “no-brainer” for Americans and Western Europeans, places where in broad strokes one can trust the

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  • Lay catholics should nominate new bishops

    January 10 2019
    Frances Burke

    Soline @1I totally agree with you.'However, in one important area nothing significant has changed, and that is in church teachings relating to female sacramental, sexual and reproductive embodime

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  • Lay catholics should nominate new bishops

    January 10 2019
    Soline Humbert

    Not much of a future in an exclusively male celibate clerical leadership ....

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