Might Covid and 2020 mark a final rupture in history of Irish Catholicism?
Salvador Ryan writes in the Irish Times:
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Observations on new English translation
Carl P. Daw, Jr., former Executive Director of the Hymn Society, priest of the Episcopal Church, is a widely recognized expert on the English language in worship, and himself an author of numerous very fine hymn texts. Pray Tell asked him to comment on the English of the revised Missal translation – not from the standpoint of how to translate from Latin, but from the standpoint of the quality of the final text. See PDF document on http://www.praytellblog.com/index.php/2011/07/05/observations-on-the-language-of-the-revised-missal/
Request: Seeking 1998 Missal…
Obliged if anyone has a 1998 Missal (ICEL) they no longer use. If so, please contact Vincent O’Grady 087-2235812.
Diary Date: ACP AGM Wed 5 Nov 2025 in the Radisson Blu Hotel, Athlone.
All members are invited to attend our AGM in Athlone. It will run from 2.00pm-5.00pm. Speakers: Martin Whelan: The Canonical Rights of Diocesan Priests Fr Martin Whelan is a priest…
Edinburgh Newman Association – details of next meeting
Edinburgh Newman Association The next meeting of our Edinburgh Newman Association is on Monday evening November 25th at 7.30pm. Our guest speaker will be Fr. Jock Dalrymple MA STL. Fr….
Appointing, Selecting or Electing bishops; We can do better than this.
We welcome Brendan Hoban’s return and wish him a speedy return to full health and continuing good health in the future.
Brendan casts his historian’s eye over the current system of appointing bishops and concludes that there was far less secrecy in 1829 than today and that “Now no one at local level really knows by what process an individual bishop is appointed. While there is a process and the scaffolding is clear – consultation at local level, a list of three candidates, discussion among bishops of the province, proposal of Congregation of Bishops (Rome), decision by the Pope, with everything organised by the current Papal Nuncio – the detail is cloaked in secrecy.” This gives rise to the perception “that an inordinate stress on secrecy has allowed individuals exert undue influence in the whole process.”ACP Leadership Team: Pope Francis (1936-2025)
Inevitably, in the first rush of grief, we can over-egg the significance of the deaths of those who carry our hopes and dreams of the future. In 1881, when arguably…
What does the word “final” mean in relation to the Christian community, the Church:
G K Chesterton wrote on “The Five Deaths of the Faith” in “The Everlasting Man”:
“I have said that Asia and the ancient world had an air of being too old to die. Christendom has had the very opposite fate. Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave. But the first extraordinary fact which marks this history is this: that Europe has been turned upside down over and over again; and that at the end of each of these revolutions the same religion has again been found on top. The Faith is always converting the age, not as an old religion but as a new religion.”
Ladislas Orsy SJ, who was 100 years old on 30 July, has a motto:
“Dum spiro, spero!” – “As long as I am breathing, I hope!”