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Brendan Hoban’s article in The Western People argues that Irish Bishops may be too careful and too averse to risk. Instead, he says, they need to give the type of leadership people are asking for.

Note: A seminar entitled Personal and Ancestral Healing will be held in Lady’s Island Community Centre on Saturday8th March from 10am to 4pm. Cost €40 with refreshments included. Facilitators –…

Vatican Radio announces that Pope Francis has appointed a commission that ‘could study the question” of the diaconate of women, “especially with regard to the first ages of the Church.” ‘
Interestingly for a Vatican body the commission is gender balanced.

Brendan Hoban in the Western People maintains that if novelist John Updike believed that God could be found in a perfectly struck five-iron approach shot to the green, then surely there’s a spark of something other-worldly in the impossible swerve of a Messi or the immaculate balance of a Van Persie.

Interview: Dublin Archbishop-elect Dermot Farrell with Patsy McGarry, The Irish Times. Installation going ahead on February 2nd. “There’ll be no big hand-over…show papal bull (making the appointment) to College of…

Christine Schenk writes in the National Catholic Reporter online: My ears perked up last week when I learned that Pope Francis had authorized a “visitation” at the Congregation for Divine…