Euro Synod Prague update…

Tue 6th February – The Great Divide For longer than we care to think there has been in society a huge dichotomy between faith and practice that has amounted to…

Brendan Hoban writing in his weekly Western People column worries about the type of church some church leaders are pushing on the faithful.
“What’s emerging is almost a church within a church where visions, novenas and relics skirt the edges of superstition, where questionable piosities are lauded and intellectual rigour is suspect, where asking a question is tantamount to betrayal, where pleasure is distrusted and sexual pleasure anathema, where Catholicism takes on an Amish-like appearance and where a series of ‘Catholic’ newspapers encourage a return to the severity, rigidity and judgementalism of the past.’

The Pope, the media, and the “normalization” of Trump As world media and leaders normalize US President Donald Trump’s erratic behavior, Pope Leo XIV must resist and keep his distance….

The Holy Father, Pope Francis, has appointed the Most Reverend Dr Dermot Farrell, until now Bishop of Ossory, as Archbishop of Dublin. https://www.catholicbishops.ie/2020/12/29/pope-francis-appoints-bishop-dermot-farrell-as-the-new-archbishop-of-dublin/   Address of Bishop Dermot Farrell on…

Updated with Bishop Fleming’s address at the launch.

Brendan Hoban is well known as a commentator on current church affairs as well as his commitment to the implementation of the reforms of Vatican II at all levels in church.
Less well known is his remarkable interest in history as demonstrated with the publication of his latest book “Telling the Story, A Dictionary of Killala Clergy” which is the third book of a three volume series of Readings in Killala Diocesan History.

Julieann Moran: Greetings to you all from Rome!  The final document from the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod has been published this evening and is available below. I…