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The Instrumentum Laboris (IL) or Working Document is the latest product of the Preparatory Stage for the 5th Plenary Council of the Catholic Church in Australia, convened to address the…
Séamus Ahearne: “Enrico, didn’t you like the pasta? Why aren’t you happy?” “Certainly I liked it. And of course I am happy.” “Then why aren’t you crying?” (The Umbrian Thursday Night Supper Club – Marlena de Blasi)
Séamus Ahearne: “Enrico, didn’t you like the pasta? Why aren’t you happy?” “Certainly I liked it. And of course I am happy.” “Then why aren’t you crying?” (The Umbrian Thursday Night…
The curious case of the Archbishop’s comments.
Brendan Hoban writing in the Western People suggests that “Part of the problem we have in the Irish Catholic Church is that little respect was given to the critical voices that time and again warned against the icebergs stalking our voyage. A lack of vision, a failure in leadership and an inability to cope with the complexities of a changing world meant that the uncritical voices, especially those that echoed official thinking, were given an inordinate influence in the last few decades. And anyone who didn’t subscribe to the old conservatism was taken out in some shape or form.”
Email from ‘What if we just said Wait’
We received the following email from Fr. Michael Ryan. Note that he is encouraging us to sign up to the ‘What if we just said Wait’ petition on the internet….
Holy Thursday
Loving Service Thought for the day (from Fr. Kieran O’Mahony) There is much more to the washing of the feet than an example of humble service. The act of loving…
Seán O’Conaill: Sir Ridley Scott’s ‘Napoleon’
This latest historical movie shows only the potential of its subject to undermine the Hollywood myth of redemptive violence, according to Sean O’Conaill. The actor Joaquin Phoenix was 48 in…