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  • The Poetry of life – and I was thinking!

    August 27 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    Thanks, Seamus, for helping us to see the sacred incarnate in the everyday nuts and bolts. "Where is even what John Feehan speaks of in regard to a leaf – the soul and divinity of life?" "the mighti

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  • The Poetry of life – and I was thinking!

    August 27 2016
    Sandra Mc Sheaffrey

    Well, thank you so much for thinking and letting your fingers do the talking. As ever, refreshing and real.

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  • The Poetry of life – and I was thinking!

    August 27 2016
    DR. HENRY

    From afar Irish Catholicism looks very divided. I listen carefully to Irish voices and conversation and what the problem seems to be is the lack of insight in pastoral care. The priests and bishops ar

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  • Silly Season Scrum: Archbishop Martin and the Media

    August 15 2016
    John

    Maynooth music department was responsible for the musical aspect of the closing event of the Eucharistic Congress. Afterwards, a professional in church music from the English speaking world commented

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  • Pope Francis and the Challenge of being Church today

    August 26 2016
    Eddie Finnegan

    "(E)ven the cardinals who had been summoned to the Vatican for the consistory . . . were absolutely flummoxed and speechless." Possibly because most of them had such poor oral and aural Latin that Ben

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  • Report on a recent meeting of the Leadership of the ACP

    August 19 2016
    Brendan Cafferty

    I would hope that much of the current leadership of ACP will stay on.They have been very good,maybe there are others to replace them but they will have a hard act to follow. The arrival of the associa

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  • On women’s ordination, who is able to speak?

    August 24 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    "In our history, this inferiority was generously reinforced by the teachings of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas." This is a widely held view. However, it is disputed by Michael Nolan (formerly of

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  • On women’s ordination, who is able to speak?

    August 24 2016
    John Quinn

    I cannot help but go back to what one of my all-time-favourite-authors, Sam Keen, wrote in To A Dancing God, in 1970. “A theologian who cannot remain an amateur should get out of the profession! Pro

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  • On women’s ordination, who is able to speak?

    August 24 2016
    Roy Donovan

    John Shea, thank you. Thank you for the energy you are putting into communicating this critical issue for the future credibility of any Church that dares to claim it belongs to Jesus Christ. It is a m

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  • The election of bishops – ACP Statement

    August 19 2016
    Lydia gillen

    It seems to me that every time a man from outside a diocese is appointed bishop that it is insulting to all the priests in that diocese. It is tantamount to saying "None of you have the qualities to

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