Pope Leo’s visit to Africa

Seamus Ahearne is wondering if “We may have to learn new and different ways of celebrating Rituals.    I think the official Books don’t do it. But that is very true of much of our present Liturgies.”
” If only this time of desert, (of House Arrest) stirred the hunger within, for what really is essential to living life to the full.”

Jo O’Sullivan gives an account of her experience of a Deanery meeting.
“My experience at the Deanery meeting has me wondering if, …….. It is all only window-dressing – a pretence that the members of Parish Pastoral Councils are involved in decision-making.

  In the beginning was the Word Chris McDonnell CT January 15th 2021 Take a drive through any town or city and you will find yourself swimming in a sea…

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.”

Tony Flannery, writing on his own in his own blog and in an article that was published in the Connaught Tribune, questions the wisdom of ‘live-streaming” Masses during this crisis when church buildings are closed.

Over 50 years ago, a cardinal asked the Vatican Council: ‘Where’s the other half of humanity?’ In her own inimitable way, Mary McAleese last week posed the same question, writes TP O’ Mahony in The Irish Examiner.