Gerry O’Connor CSsR, Sunday Homily video for 32nd Sunday of the Year, 10 Nov 2024

WOMEN’S ORDINATION IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, by John O’Brien (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2019) by Angela Hanley My first reaction to such a…

This is an interesting email that one of our members got from a parishioner in relation to the new responses at Mass.  Maybe it is something we priests might keep in mind.

Petrocchi Commission says no to female diaconate, though judgment not definitive A report presenting the results of the Commission’s work has been released. It rules out admitting women to the…

Brendan Hoban writes in his Western People column of his hopes for a new style of leadership in the church in Ireland.
“What we need are bishops who are secure enough in their own skin to be able to live with ambivalence and complexity……who have the imagination, the creativity and above all the courage not to keep looking over their shoulders to Rome and to confront – respectfully but robustly – those who want to lead us back to the nineteenth century. “

In an op-ed published in the Telegraph, Jeremy Hunt, Foreign Secretary of the U.K. Government, explains why he has commissioned a review into the persecution of Christians.
“Whatever the cause, we must never allow a misguided political correctness to inhibit our response to the persecution of any religious community.”
Irish politicians please copy?

The Czech theologian, Tomas Halik, was recently asked to give a talk to a working meeting of the European delegates to the October Synod. (Link to text of presentation at…