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AVAILABLE NOW! The Irish Dominicans, 800 Years 1224-2024€30.00 AVAILABLE NOWThe Irish Dominicans, 800 Years is now available. This volume traces the history of the Irish Dominicans from their foundation in Norman…

Roy Donovan commenting, in an article in The Limerick Leader on the clustering of parishes in Limerick diocese into ‘pastoral units’, says “Every possibility should be put on the table. Limerick diocese is operating within the limits – they are doing the best they can within the limits. We would be saying the overall church, all over the world needs to go beyond those limits and needs to open up every possibility including married people and women priests,”.

Sharon Tighe-Mooney was stunned to read that Pope Benedict XVl had made the ordination of women a more serious “crime” than sexual abuse of children! She devoted herself to research the reasons for this and has published a very clear and readable book; ‘What About Me? Women and the Catholic Church’
Sharon will address this topic on Monday, 14 October, 2019 at the Mercy International Centre, 64A Baggot Street, Dublin 2: 7.30pm to 9.15pm  

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.”

Zoom : Thursday October 6th, 2022 at 8.00 p.m. – Transmitting Faith inContemporary Culture In processing the diocesan synodal reports the ACI steering group concluded that no issue seemed of…

Tues 20th Aug 24 – Biblical Keys to Happiness Fifty years ago, I came to a stage where I was feeling particularly distressed while training for the priesthood in Maynooth…