Euro Synod Prague update…
Tuesday 7 Feb 2023: Live streaming morning session:
Live streaming afternoon session:
Tuesday 7 Feb 2023: Live streaming morning session:
Live streaming afternoon session:
Brendan Hoban, writing in the Western People, comments on the recent decision of Pope Francis not to make a decision about women deacons. “It’s a decision that the Church seems intent on avoiding,” ….
“The key question Francis faces is not whether the Church can afford to ordain women deacons but whether we can afford not to do it.”
Western people 17.7.2024 Here’s a question: Why is it that a significant percentage of Catholics who no longer attend Mass with any regularity are still happy to financially contribute to…
Roy Donovan commenting, in an article in The Limerick Leader on the clustering of parishes in Limerick diocese into ‘pastoral units’, says “Every possibility should be put on the table. Limerick diocese is operating within the limits – they are doing the best they can within the limits. We would be saying the overall church, all over the world needs to go beyond those limits and needs to open up every possibility including married people and women priests,”.
‘And give us minds to comprehend driblets of Your design, awing us with skies and tides and glittering dust.’ (Pádraig Daly- A Small Psalter) Great Sport: The Meath girls did…
Bernard Cotter has uploaded Presiders Pages to the ACP website for over ten years. His present book is geared at anyone who presides at a Sunday liturgy, and will also…
A Poem by Michael Maginn I have rarely felt the need of one in more than thirty years of pastoral ministry, but if our Shepherds want to wear a soutane…