Gerry O’Connor CSsR Sunday Homily 22nd Sunday – 1 Sept 2024

 Fr John Gribowich writes in the National Catholic Reporter, Nov 7, 2020: Bob Dylan explores death to self in ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’ …Once again, the singer-songwriter does not disappoint,…

Seamus Ahearne was somewhat redundant on Sunday morning. “I read the Morning Prayer very slowly. I had to do it out-loud.  Otherwise, it was in danger of being rushed thoughtlessly.  And my mind retreated to the past.  The long distant past.”

Press Release – Saturday, 27 July 2024Immediate: Newsdesks, Photodesks and Religious Affairs Correspondents Statement from the Galway Diocesan Office on the interment of the remains of Bishop Eamonn Casey Diocese requires…

Mattie Long reflects on the open letter Gerald O’Collins S.J. wrote to English speaking bishops concerning the continued use of the “new” missal. Added to this letter are the comments of Pope Francis on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the celebration of the first vernacular Mass celebrated by Pope Paul VI in 1965.
Mattie draws on James Dallen’s ‘What Kind of Ecclesiology?’ to question the purpose of the ‘new’ missal.

Concerns expressed in a recent article by Brendan Hoban, ‘the world has changed and so must the Church’, were the subject of a fairly lengthy interview with Bishop Fintan Monahan of Killaloe Diocese on the Faith Alive programme on Mid West Radio.

Vatican News website is reporting: The podcasts explore biodiversity and related issues of Catholic social teaching as lived in a variety of contexts where Columban missionaries are working. By Robin…