Synod Newsletter Link – Newsletter 2 now available
Newsletter No 2 is now available.
This is the link to sign up for the newsletters, which are most informative. There is also advice on how to follow the Synod on various social media platforms.
Newsletter No 2 is now available.
This is the link to sign up for the newsletters, which are most informative. There is also advice on how to follow the Synod on various social media platforms.
A Press Conference to present the work and format of the Second Session of the Universal Synod (2-27 October 2024) took place on Monday, 16 September from the Holy See Press Office….
America magazine carries an article on comments by two of the people who have served on the Vatican’s commission to research women deacons in the early church.
Brendan Hoban, writing in his column in The Western People, raises the issue of the campaign being waged to force the Catholic Church to hand over half of its primary level schools to patrons with a different ethos.
Brendan says that “The truth is that only Catholic parents can make that decision.”
and
“The real demand in Ireland is not for secular schools but for school places and providing adequate places is the responsibility, not of the Catholic Church, but of the State.”
Vatican News reports: The Vatican publishes the official English-language version of Pope Francis’ Apostolic Constitution ‘Praedicate Evangelium’. As of now, the official text of the new Apostolic Constitution Praedicate Evangelium on the…
Seán O Conaill asks why the synodal discussions of 2022 in Ireland came to a year-long pause, after highlighting ‘a crisis in the transmission of faith’ and ‘serious weaknesses in…
Press coverage of ACP AGM: Irish Independent: https://www.independent.ie/world-news/priests-bullied-and-mocked-over-their-appearance-by-bishops-priests-meeting-hears-41039680.html Irish Times: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/diocesan-synods-last-chance-saloon-for-catholic-church-priest-meeting-hears-1.4725168
Equality: inside and outside the Synod.
https://www.ncronline.org/news/events-inside-and-outside-vaticans-synod-hall-focus-womens-equality