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The Prague Meeting and the Road Ahead JULIEANN MORAN General Secretary for the Synodal Pathway in Ireland Followed by Q & A 7.30 pm Wednesday 8th of March 2023 (join…
You are cordially invited to a Zoom presentation with Derek Scally Author ‘The Best Catholics in the World’ on Friday May 21st at 8.00pm …
Seamus Ahearne and his congregation find inspiration in the sporting figures of the past week and get a little distracted by royalty.
He wonders because the newly appointed Irish soccer team manager Mick McCarthy is back. “He once was the past. Now he is the future.” With regard to church Seamus tells us “We cannot get lost in the past. The past has to be distilled. The best has to be retained. The packaging can be discarded.”
Chris McDonnell wrote recently in the Catholic Times about education and the central roles of the teacher and the school.
In light of the rapidly changing relationship between church and the education system in our country it is very relevant to question what makes a good school and good teacher and realise the role they can play; “The stress of modern family life inevitably follows them (pupils) to school, although for a few hours, the school and an understanding teacher, can become a still point in a turning, turbulent world” …… “The teacher is the one who walks beside you on the Emmaus Road.”
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