Regular ACP online contributor Paddy Ferry has recommended the following article by Mike Harding in the Irish Times.
Mike Harding is a folk musician, stand-up comic, broadcaster and poet who lives in Connemara and Yorkshire.
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The first woman to appear in John’s Gospel makes her entry so modestly and unassumingly that she might seem insignificant: “On the third day there was a wedding in Cana…
The Catholic bishops of England and Wales have published an extraordinarily candid piece of criticism of the Church taken from a summary of responses to a consultation conducted in preparation for the forthcoming international synod of bishops in Rome next month, on the subject of marriage and family life.
An editorial in The Tablet states that “they want a Church that engages with married life and its messy difficulties realistically and humanely, not one offering idealistic textbook answers.”
One respondent is quoted as saying: “It would seem that right now the Church may well have more to learn from marriage and family life than to teach.”
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Letter from Pope Francis to U.S.A. bishops who are on retreat to pray about the issue of clerical abuse in the Church.
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The Prodigal Poet’s lyrics explore themes of salvation, damnation and the eternal quest for truth. By Luke Larson Last December’s Oscar-nominated film A Complete Unknown tells the story of how the budding…
Of all the horror stories we have heard over the last 30 years or so, I find this piece by Mike Harding to be one of the most distressing. And the final insult, of course, was the Diocese of Salford not even mustering the wherewithal to offer a sincere and genuine apology, resorting instead to weasel words — “reported abuse”. Totally shameful!
And, of course, they threw loads of cash employing expensive lawyers to thwart the efforts of those who were so abused in seeking justice and some kind of closure .
This reminds me of the Religious Orders employing the most expensive legal firm in Ireland to — in Michael O’Brien’s words, “to make liars” of those who were seeking justice at the Redress Board process.