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You’ve Got a Friend Chris McDonnell CT May 28th 2021 In a song made famous by the singer James Taylor, Carole King wrote of friendship. The opening verse says it…

We Are Church Ireland  launched a petition calling on Pope Francis to change Vatican theological language that is gravely insulting to LGBTQI people.

Non-Catholics at the table: now or never? Thomas O’Loughlin
This is an expanded version of an article that appeared in The Tablet on 21July 2018 under the title: Eucharistic Hospitality: Don’ t deny the promise of future glory.

Letter to the Bishops and the People of God Did you know that the General Secretariat of the Synod (Cardinal Mario Grech) has sent a letter to all Bishops, and…

Seamus Ahearne posts a mid-summer reflection. Among other issues he wonders if “When people look backwards and dump the blame for everything on the past – they simply are avoiding the responsibility of what is facing them at the moment……. It is so much easier to be apologetic about the past than it is to look at today.”
He worries for Pope Francis “Why wouldn’t people leave him alone to get on with his business in Rome? We need him so badly and yet we waste his energy and time.”
But this mid-summer Seamus tells us. “We can stand back and let all this seriousness and pomposity of life be smiled at.”

Chris McDonnell thinks about one thing that has been missed in recent weeks – “the exchange of touch between each other in recent weeks for without words our hands speak of our emotions, our cares and our suffering.”
“It is with our hands that we take and give, share and consume. What could be more practical than we receive the gift of the Christ in the same manner?”