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  • Bishop Dermot O’ Mahony R.I.P.

    December 13 2015
    Padraig McCarthy

    A recording of the Funeral Mass can be seen (I don't know for how long) at http://www.churchservices.tv/shankill/archive/recordings/VbYqlBWbNK Opening hymn starts at about 2 mins. Introductory words b

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  • Bishop Dermot O’ Mahony R.I.P.

    December 13 2015
    Tony Flannery

    I never met, nor had I any dealing with, Bishop Dermot O’Mahony. Until the Murphy Report anything I ever heard about him was positive – a warm, gentle, caring man who was a shining light in a Chur

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  • Bishop Dermot O’ Mahony R.I.P.

    December 13 2015
    Margaret Lee

    I am disappointed that Sarah McDonald could only focus on the Murphy Report's account of bishop Dermot O'Mahony. Is it possible that she did dwell on some good aspects of this man's life but that the

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  • The Church Always In Need of Reform

    December 15 2015
    Mary Cunningham

    Thank you for this review, Brendan. I have spent the last couple weeks studying Gabriel Daly's book. It has been an uplifting, hope-filled experience. The sense of Gabriel's deep ecumenical spirit

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  • Yes Pope, a.k.a. Yes Minister

    December 13 2015
    Joe O'Brien

    Change is always difficult especially when the vision of where you are heading changes, in any organisation. Pope Francis is changing the ground rules and seems to be taking the Church in a different

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  • A Church Traumatised.

    December 8 2015
    Kevin Walters

    Willie Herlihy @1 All was fine until, finally, the child sex abuse scandal exploded. All the years of moving paedophiles around, to protect the institution, came home to roost. Also Name what the real

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  • Living Positively in the face of Injustice

    December 9 2015
    mjt

    Lloyd Allan MacPherson@10. Thank you for the seriousness with which you replied. However, I think you may be mistaken about a few things. First, you write as if you may think I am a priest. Though I a

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  • Living Positively in the face of Injustice

    December 9 2015
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    MJT, @ 9, if you are speaking about the new missal translation, that's quite the case. I'm going to say that the majority of churchgoers find it awkward, as do the priests. Bishops want to keep the

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  • Yes Pope, a.k.a. Yes Minister

    December 13 2015
    Helen

    The love that dare not speak its name - anonymous!

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  • Yes Pope, a.k.a. Yes Minister

    December 13 2015
    Joe O'Leary

    Perhaps Jesus got similar negative reviews.

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