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  • We’re not ready to meet the Pope

    December 5 2016
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    I think a great way to get ready for Pope Francis would be to collectively poll parishioners to see if any of their priests mentioned anything about Laudato si' in their homilies or spoke of the envir

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  • We’re not ready to meet the Pope

    December 5 2016
    Sean O Brien

    # 10 & #11 Sean, Christmas greetings to you as well. This may be heading off on a tangent from your comments but from time to time I see people commenting here and berating us ACP members for not

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  • We’re not ready to meet the Pope

    December 5 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    #10 My proposal that the ACP should see the relevance of Catholic Social Teaching to the dual crisis we are seeing in Ireland - of Church relationships and secular hope - was also made in this discus

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  • We’re not ready to meet the Pope

    December 5 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    #9 Irony, Eddie? As Pope Francis' major theme is the need for the church to cease all the infighting (if it is to become a 'field hospital' for those in even greater misery outside of it) how come yo

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  • Christmas – An Open Door or even a Half-Door

    December 8 2016
    Susan Mc Hugh

    The half door, the table, the range, the kettle. The chat, indeed, was the nourishment. We 3 shared something of all that, Seamus, in the very recent past. That IS the Altar. Here IS the food of

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  • Councils of Priests – are they relevant?

    December 11 2016
    DR. HENRY

    Very respectfully to priests: Go on strike one Sunday morning.

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  • Face Reality or opt for False Clarity

    December 10 2016
    Eddie Finnegan

    I suspect that Ab Mark Coleridge is a very polite man. I suspect, too, that those four cardinals are not merely unnerved but unhinged - excardinati in fact. Time, perhaps, to pension off old Monsignor

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  • Councils of Priests – are they relevant?

    December 11 2016
    Bernard Cotter

    A noted priest in our diocese (Cork & Ross) often comments that the Priests' Council is the place where good ideas go to die. Still, I am a member of a deanery conference which has survived five y

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  • Doubting or dissenting Cardinals?

    December 4 2016
    John

    If Bishop Franghiskos Papamanólis above were taken seriously, the church would go from a state under one pope where raising a question draws accusations of disloyalty and heresy to the state under

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  • Councils of Priests – are they relevant?

    December 11 2016
    Seamus Ahearne

    Tim is a very honest man. His courage and toughness of spirit has been refined by experience. His words on Priests’ Councils are sharp and relevant. He needs to be listened to. The role of Priests

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