He Is Risen!

Western People 17.10.2023 The recent Positive Ageing Week is a timely reminder for us – Oldies, Seniors, Elders, OAPs, Old fogies or whatever we call ourselves now – To Look…

Regional Priests Meetings – North
Tuesday 11 September 2018 at 2.00pm in the Clannree Hotel, Derry Road, Letterkenny, Co Donegal. 
All priests welcome, including non-ACP members. 

We Are Church Ireland invites you to join a series of talks to be delivered by the theologian Diarmuid Ó Murchú on the subject of Being Adult People of God in the…

An Inappropriate Spiritual Communion The current Spiritual Communion being used in Irish churches during lockdown is a misleading theology and deeply unbiblical in saying “…come at least spiritually into my…

Brendan Hoban in his weekly Western People column offers his thoughts on the outcome of the marriage referendum.
“A clear message for the Church is that the bishops’ view was roundly rejected not just by the gay community, or those sympathetic to its views, but by tens of thousands of ‘ordinary’ Catholics.”
“There’s a massive change taking place in Ireland and, once again, the Catholic Church finds itself out-thought and out-manoeuvred, too influenced by the conservative right, ….
Trying to keep out the tide is always a failed enterprise. When will we learn that simple truth?”

Michael Commane OP in a column for INM Irish regionals says that statements from Pope Francis and the German Bishops set him thinking. He found what they had to say ” … heart warming and must give hope to those who pray to an open and forgiving God. How great would it be to see far more of a church that stressed prudence and compassion over authoritarianism and discipline.”