We are Church present a Zoom event with Amanda Dillon on the topic of “Lydia, Phoebe and the women of the Early Christian Churches”.
Monday 25 May 2020
7.30 p.m. to 9.00 p.m.
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René Girard and the Challenge of Truly Being Church With Michael Kirwan SJ ZOOM – Thu 30th March – 8.00 pm “It shall not be so among you!” René Girard…
Western People 6.8.2024 In the light of my reflections last week on the subject of priests’ changes, a reader both commends me for a column I wrote some months back…
Aboard the papal plane returning to Rome from Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV speaks to journalists about the role of the Holy See, which works “behind-the-scenes” in peace negotiations, so that…
A last chance to reform the Catholic Church Western People 23.8.2022 ‘O ye of little faith’, Matthew Chapter 6, verse 30. It isn’t often that I start this column…
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.
From the outside, looking in Chris McDonnell CT Belonging to a social group, a sports club, a political party or a local community association involves accepting certain rules and patterns…
