Soline Humbert – A Divine Calling – book launch invitation

Both the diocese of Galway and diocese of Clonfert have posted messages on their respsective websites today of the intention of Pope Francis to appoint a single Bishop to the…

DON’T TAMPER WITH THE TIME! The clock and nature are in dispute. Nature refuses to accept the changed hour. The heron protests and doesn’t appear. The swans are unsure and…

Socrates and Boris: I am very neglectful. My friend hasn’t had a visit for such a long time. He sits down in the Botanic Gardens looking thoughtful but somewhat forlorn….

This article was recently published on-line on the NCR website in the US. It is a response by Don Cozzens to a piece by James Carroll in the Atlantic journal. Our thanks to Don Cozzens for forwarding it to us.

“Carroll has named for me what continues to unsettle my soul — the superior status and lofty identity the church claims for its priests, cultivated and sustained by clerical celibacy and the withholding of meaningful leadership roles from the laity, especially women.”

The Issue A Chairde Gael, A letter calling on the GAA to promptly cease its business relationship with Allianz was handed into Croke Park on Wednesday, 20th August 2025. It…

Thomas O Loughlin offers his thoughts on a “new” lectionary following the recent announcement by the bishops of Scotland. Can we hope that our bishops might engage with Thomas and others before making a decision?
“There is an alternative – one already adopted in the 1973 English-language edition of the Liturgy of the Hours – which is to use a range of translations depending on what portion of scripture is being translated and how it is being used. Indeed, the very fact that in the current lectionary there is a distinct translation of the Psalter (and there is going to be a distinct version of the psalms in the proposed lectionary), shows that the ‘one size fits all’ approach to translations is faulty.”