Marriage and birth rates: Ireland ‘on wrong course’

A Quiet Day:   It was Bank Holiday Monday with St Brigid. She is a fine woman who has improved with age, and has been modified to fit most agendas….

Please note, we expect this to be popular and you may have to queue. The Declaration of Arbroath is a letter dated 6 April 1320 written by the barons and…

Pope Francis issues major overhaul of the C.D.F. America Magazine reports… In an important move, Pope Francis has issued a decree, published “motu proprio” (on his own initiative), in which…

Fr. Jim Sabak, OFM has a thought provoking article on praytellblog.com
“It is always God who acts in and through sacramental encounter, the ordained serving as instruments to gather the Church together for the purpose of encountering God’s activity. In these days, this experience must take place beyond the usual sphere of ritual and rubric. Anything else serves only to limit our vital experience of God’s forgiveness, mercy, and love.”

Notice from We are Church Ireland about two upcoming lectures and their AGM

Brendan Hoban writing in the Western People suggests that “Part of the problem we have in the Irish Catholic Church is that little respect was given to the critical voices that time and again warned against the icebergs stalking our voyage. A lack of vision, a failure in leadership and an inability to cope with the complexities of a changing world meant that the uncritical voices, especially those that echoed official thinking, were given an inordinate influence in the last few decades. And anyone who didn’t subscribe to the old conservatism was taken out in some shape or form.”