The President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins meeting Pope Francis in Rome

praytellblog.com carries an item of new “super” parishes being created in Germany with an average of 35,000 parishioners but in this case with a population of 99,000.
Is this where ‘clustering’ is taking us? Is there any reason the planned structure for administration and pastoral care could not be employed using lay people in our current parishes?

Catholic Herald reports: The Archbishop of San Francisco has called Catholics to participate in Eucharistic processions across the city on September 20, which will join together and walk past city hall…

Western People 16.7.2024 Joe Biden, most recently the toast of Ballina and the great hope of the Democratic party in America in the upcoming presidential election, now finds himself in…

Brendan Hoban writes in his Western People column of his hopes for a new style of leadership in the church in Ireland.
“What we need are bishops who are secure enough in their own skin to be able to live with ambivalence and complexity……who have the imagination, the creativity and above all the courage not to keep looking over their shoulders to Rome and to confront – respectfully but robustly – those who want to lead us back to the nineteenth century. “

The playfulness of Gabriel: Gabriel Daly died this afternoon – 30th August. The memories are like an avalanche. They overwhelm the mind. Stories and moments rush back to crowd the…

Janus: Looks to the past. Looks to the future Hidden language: The Tolka. The river was slurping. Or gurgling. Or maybe even gargling. I think it was probably spluttering. Each…