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Work is ongoing! Most of the content has ‘migrated’ to the new site. Working on the Homepage….many thanks for your patience. Comments are back in operation.
PRESS RELEASE 15 August 2018 Association of Catholics in Ireland ACI supports Marie Collins in her call to Pope Francis for commitment to action on abuse scandals. The Association of Catholics…
“This Holy Week we won’t be acting it out in a pageant, instead we will be living it out”
Western People 30.12.2025 Early on in his novel, That They May See The Rising Sun, John McGahern has the main character, Rutledge, admit to the playful Jamesie that he’s feeling…
Apologies for delays in postings the last couple of days. We were ‘stormed out’ and are still without power in many parts of the west. In prayerful thanks to all…
Members of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference gathered in-person this week in Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth, for their Autumn 2021 General Meeting. Due to public health restrictions arising from the…
William Crean, Bishop of Cloyne, speaking to the priests of that diocese told them that in his recent teaching Pope Francis emphasises ‘that an effective Christian communion requires that we embrace the concept of Synodality in the everyday life of the Church. It is both the concept and reality of journeying with people. It is to trust in the “sensus fidei” ‘.
Bishop Crean also reminded his audience of the good done in the past by religious and priests but also stated ‘The long lens of hindsight enables us to identify the poor pastoral practice of many of our predecessors. Though well-intentioned a narrow moralistic focus made for a distorted and dysfunctional spiritual vision/understanding of Christian living. We live with both the riches and the baggage of our past.’