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Scout for “talent” Sunday
The richness of a parable is that it can carry more than one implication. This is true also of the parable of the talents in Matthew 25.
Padraig McCarthy
Presider’s Page for 13 November (33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time)
The readings this Sunday focus on the end of the world, though we are also reassured that people of faith have nothing to fear. (Today is also World Day of…
Séamus Ahearne: “I was a very reluctant priest.”
‘Yet stop I did: In fact I often do and always end much at a loss like this. Wondering what to look for, wondering too, when churches fall completely out…
A cardinal says he’s open to women’s ordination; a priest who did so remains suspended
One of world’s most influential cardinals recently admitted that he is “open” to the idea of ordaining women to the Catholic priesthood. “I am not saying that women have to…
Jim Cogley – Reflections Tues 21st Nov – Mon 27th Nov
Tues 21st Nov – Religious or Spiritual? Photo Credit: Oisín Brennan This is one of the most often heard statements of our age that, ‘I’m not religious, I don’t go…
An absolute right to freedom of speech?
Brendan Hoban, in the Western People, muses about the rights and responsibilities of freedom of speech.
“While the right to free expression is important and should be defended, it’s not an absolute right. And those who are prepared to hurt and offend should not see it as a fail-safe or catch-all defence for their bigotry, of whatever hue.”