Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP Leadership Team: ‘Artificial Intimacy’ 23rd Sunday Year B 2024
Link to Gerry’s homily for this Sunday, 23rd Sunday of the Year (B):
Link to Gerry’s homily for this Sunday, 23rd Sunday of the Year (B):
An edited version of this article by Peter Stanford about the bishops’ meeting in Rome to discuss clerical sexual abuse appeared recently in The Observer.
“It is an appalling moral failure and needs to end now, but that will involve rethinking an entire approach to sexuality in Catholicism that is peculiar, punitive and often plain perverse. The Jesus of the gospels had almost no interest is such matters. Why does the Church leadership? “
La Croix International reports: The Synodal consultations hold the promise of meaningful reforms. In that context the Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research has constructed a proposed Constitution for the Catholic…
Memories of a visit to Auschwitz and the life story of Edith Eger inspire Seamus Ahearne.
“If Edith can parallel her life story with the life stories of her patients, I wonder where might we go, if we took her methods into our story of faith and church and ministry. We are so often imprisoned in sadness. We apologise for the past. We are embarrassed by that past. We blame others. We feel that we have failed. …. We can’t let go. We don’t want to get out of prison. We are afraid to wander into freedom and future and hope.”
Several people have recommended this article in the current edition of The Irish Catholic by Fr Martin Delaney. Link to article: (subscription required) https://www.irishcatholic.com/bishops-should-consult-parish-before-moving-clergy
America Magazine reports: Pope Francis has given a text called “The Beatitudes of the Bishop” to all the Italian bishops meeting in plenary assembly in Rome. The text offers encouragement…
The launch of Dipping Into Life Messenger Publications invites you to join us for the ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH of Dipping Into Life 40 Reflections for a Fragile Faith By Alan…