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Links for speeches taken from
https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2021/09/12.html
Seamus Ahearne writes against the backdrop of current experience where “We can feel got at … we feel accused of sexual chaos …. we are deflated … the Church is battered. …. the priesthood is in a mess.” and states that we still need to be “people who have a view of a bigger picture and can give a real context to every day and always have a broader outlook. We can’t be a slave to the News or to the Moment.” We can’t let life get us down.
The man from Del Monte was one of our own I’ve just published my new book, A Priest’s Diary. Not so much a diary as a series of…
VATICAN CITY — The head of the Vatican’s powerful doctrinal congregation Sept. 22 defended his office’s request that an Irish priest sign four strict oaths of fidelity to Catholic teachings,…
Who cares for the carers? Avoid the mirror: I had to check on the Facebook video of last weekend’s Mass. Edinburgh had some technical hitch. (Not that I know anything…
Press Statement from Tony Flannery 3rd January 2021 In the last while two senior members of the Catholic Church have made statements about the position of women in the…
Brendan Hoban, writing in the Western People, looks at Archbishop Martin’s recent comments about the future of the church.
“So did he say anything new? Not really. Nothing that most people in Ireland are not saying in parish councils. Or when they’re standing outside schools waiting for their children. Or at pub counters. The sort of things that most priests know though they often won’t admit it even to themselves. Just some realistic thinking out loud on where we are and where we need to be – unusual, it has to be said, for Irish bishops.”
Seamus Ahearne writes against the backdrop of current experience where “We can feel got at … we feel accused of sexual chaos …. we are deflated … the Church is battered. …. the priesthood is in a mess.” and states that we still need to be “people who have a view of a bigger picture and can give a real context to every day and always have a broader outlook. We can’t be a slave to the News or to the Moment.” We can’t let life get us down.
The man from Del Monte was one of our own I’ve just published my new book, A Priest’s Diary. Not so much a diary as a series of…
VATICAN CITY — The head of the Vatican’s powerful doctrinal congregation Sept. 22 defended his office’s request that an Irish priest sign four strict oaths of fidelity to Catholic teachings,…
Who cares for the carers? Avoid the mirror: I had to check on the Facebook video of last weekend’s Mass. Edinburgh had some technical hitch. (Not that I know anything…
Press Statement from Tony Flannery 3rd January 2021 In the last while two senior members of the Catholic Church have made statements about the position of women in the…
Brendan Hoban, writing in the Western People, looks at Archbishop Martin’s recent comments about the future of the church.
“So did he say anything new? Not really. Nothing that most people in Ireland are not saying in parish councils. Or when they’re standing outside schools waiting for their children. Or at pub counters. The sort of things that most priests know though they often won’t admit it even to themselves. Just some realistic thinking out loud on where we are and where we need to be – unusual, it has to be said, for Irish bishops.”
Seamus Ahearne writes against the backdrop of current experience where “We can feel got at … we feel accused of sexual chaos …. we are deflated … the Church is battered. …. the priesthood is in a mess.” and states that we still need to be “people who have a view of a bigger picture and can give a real context to every day and always have a broader outlook. We can’t be a slave to the News or to the Moment.” We can’t let life get us down.
The man from Del Monte was one of our own I’ve just published my new book, A Priest’s Diary. Not so much a diary as a series of…
VATICAN CITY — The head of the Vatican’s powerful doctrinal congregation Sept. 22 defended his office’s request that an Irish priest sign four strict oaths of fidelity to Catholic teachings,…
Who cares for the carers? Avoid the mirror: I had to check on the Facebook video of last weekend’s Mass. Edinburgh had some technical hitch. (Not that I know anything…
Press Statement from Tony Flannery 3rd January 2021 In the last while two senior members of the Catholic Church have made statements about the position of women in the…
Brendan Hoban, writing in the Western People, looks at Archbishop Martin’s recent comments about the future of the church.
“So did he say anything new? Not really. Nothing that most people in Ireland are not saying in parish councils. Or when they’re standing outside schools waiting for their children. Or at pub counters. The sort of things that most priests know though they often won’t admit it even to themselves. Just some realistic thinking out loud on where we are and where we need to be – unusual, it has to be said, for Irish bishops.”
All the young faces
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