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Séamus Ahearne: “Enrico, didn’t you like the pasta? Why aren’t you happy?” “Certainly I liked it. And of course I am happy.” “Then why aren’t you crying?” (The Umbrian Thursday Night…
A group of German, Austrian, and Swiss church people have come together to make an appeal for “pastoral conversion”.
This group have issued a ”mission manifesto” because they say the Church in Germany, Austria and Switzerland is about to cease to play any significant role in society in the years to come.
“ We are aware of the fact that our home countries have become mission territories … We are ready for mission. We wish that our countries may find Jesus. We extend our invitation to everybody who wants to join us in a committed wave of prayer. We wish to bring together all those who have the courage to take extraordinary steps.”
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.
A suggested gesture in solidarity and hope …
We express our sympathies to Gerry O Connor, member of the ACP leadership team, and to his family on the death of his father Tom O’Connor.
Jubilee 2025 and Foilseacháin Ábhair Spioradálta Is teach foilsitheoireachta Íosánach é Foilseacháin Ábhair Spioradálta a bhfuil leabhair á bhfoilsiú aige as Gaeilge faoin gcreideamh agus faoin gcultúr Críostaí le seachtó…
Gorgeous George does not come out of this very well, not gorgeous at all, In fact.
Some denounce Francis for alleged unkindness to Cardinal Sarah and Georg G., and say that saints do not behave like this. Really? Saints are great at delivering tongue-lashings at heretics and also at their friends (Jerome v. Rufinus), and might claim to be imitating Jesus in so doing. The opportunistic snowflakery of the Francis-bashers is childish.