How Women Founded Christianity

The last of four reports from the Vatican by Brother Mark O’Connor FMS, Vicar for Communications, Diocese of Parramatta and Pope Francis Fellow, Newman College, University of Melbourne.  “PEOPLE…ARE SEEKING, AND NOT WITHOUT SUFFERING,…

ACP Submission on Synodality – Synthesis – 29 May 2022 (See links below also for Association of Catholics in Ireland, We Are Church, DIocese of Elphin, Archdiocese of Dublin.) As…

The Baftas and Joan Baez Martin McDonagh made his wry comment at the Baftas. ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ won the ‘Outstanding British Film’ of the year. He said that Rosie…

As it gradually became evident during the earlier years of the pontificate of Pope Francis that he was determined to restore the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, and that…

Note from the Apostolic Penitentiary on the Sacrament of Reconciliation in the current pandemic.

Brendan Hoban in the current edition of Studies gives an honest assessment of the current state of the Church in Ireland and says “that ongoing change is now a permanent reality for the Catholic Church”. Brendan also posits a possible way forward based on the reality of the situation but reminds us that by rejecting the reality of change we are “by extension, rejecting the possibility of reshaping a different church.”
Our thanks to the Editor of Studies, Bruce Bradley SJ, for permission to publish this article on our website.