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Root & Branch Zoom: Soline Humbert with Mary McAleese, Thurs 12 Feb @ 8.00pm
REGISTER HERE to get the Zoom Link.https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/fBAYF8h9Qjm2HnSzG12tIw#/registrationThe Conversation will be followed by a Questions & Answers session.
Timely letter from Pope Francis to James Martin SJ on his ministry to gay Catholics
Pope Francis has written to the US based priest, James Martin SJ, praising his ministry to gay Catholics. In stark contrast to the legalistic language used by the Congregation for the…
Faith; the ability to live with uncertainty
Brendan Hoban writing in his weekly Western People column worries about the type of church some church leaders are pushing on the faithful.
“What’s emerging is almost a church within a church where visions, novenas and relics skirt the edges of superstition, where questionable piosities are lauded and intellectual rigour is suspect, where asking a question is tantamount to betrayal, where pleasure is distrusted and sexual pleasure anathema, where Catholicism takes on an Amish-like appearance and where a series of ‘Catholic’ newspapers encourage a return to the severity, rigidity and judgementalism of the past.’Brendan Hoban: Two Americans living on different planets
Western People 21.4.26 When Robert Prevost was elected Pope Leo XIV as the first American pope in history, people wondered how he would get on with President Donald Trump. ‘Not…
Book Review: Danièle Hervieu-Léger and Jean-Louis Schlegel, Vers l’Implosion? Entretiens sur le présent et l’avenir ducatholicisme. Paris: Seuil, 2022. 392 pp.
The first lecture I heard in French, in 1967, spoke of the ‘dechristianization’ of the Bordeaux region, a new and shocking word for me. Since then, year after year, visiting…
Apropos of grasshopper ideas
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.”