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Just to advise that the Comments section for all posts has been re-opened. The vaccine hit the mark!  

The Tablet reports: More bishops are pleading with their governments to give priority to ethically developed coronavirus vaccines, but many also are telling Catholics that not getting vaccinated is a…

We have, over many centuries, held islands in a certain awe, places set apart, cut off, inaccessible, remote. Lindisfarne, or to use its familiar name in the North East of…

The Plenary Council in Australia starts on 3rd October 2021.   The Australian Bishops have issued the Agenda  for the Fifth Plenary Council which consists of 16 Questions.  FIFTH PLENARY…

Brendan Hoban in his Western People column takes a look at a new proposed programme on Sex Education in schools, at what could be the next debate / battle “between civil and religious contexts’ where “distrust and accusation are the order of the day.”….
“The hope would be that … we’ve learned a bit from our mistakes: that we don’t know it all; that we can learn from those we may disagree with; … and especially that, given all that has happened in recent decades, we’re not in the best place to pontificate on matters sexual. In other words, that we can learn as well as teach.”

Vatican Radio announces that Pope Francis has appointed a commission that ‘could study the question” of the diaconate of women, “especially with regard to the first ages of the Church.” ‘
Interestingly for a Vatican body the commission is gender balanced.