Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP leadership – weekly Sunday video homily
‘Forerunners’ – 7 Dec 2025 – 2nd Sunday of Advent Year A 2025
‘Forerunners’ – 7 Dec 2025 – 2nd Sunday of Advent Year A 2025
The Parish Priest of Knock, Fr Richard Gibbons, spoke with Midwest Radio about the confusion and frustration over the Government’s announcement to postpone Baptisms, First Holy Communions and Confirmations. There…
‘If we dismiss our past as a source of shame and embarrassment only, we risk depriving a new generation of connection with deep wells of spirituality’ – Bishop Crean Taken…
Pentecost 2024 Dear President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), In this interim time of the working Synodal Assembly of Bishops, millions of Catholics have…
Chris McDonnell pens a tribute to Bob Dylan on his 80th Birthday. Drawing by Irish rock legend, Rory Gallagher. Copyright Strange Music Ltd. Dylan at 80 24 May 1941 We…
Sean O’Conaill asks ‘who is to address the question of the church’s relevance to the wider spiritual and moral crisis of Irish society?’
praytellblog.com carries an item of new “super” parishes being created in Germany with an average of 35,000 parishioners but in this case with a population of 99,000.
Is this where ‘clustering’ is taking us? Is there any reason the planned structure for administration and pastoral care could not be employed using lay people in our current parishes?