This Evening! We Are Church Zoom: “Synod and National Synodal Pathway” with Dr. Nicola Brady:

The Tablet reports: Archbishop Michael Neary, Archbishop of Tuam, said permanent deacons are a gift for the Church. Brenda Drumm, Catholic Communications Office Permanent deacons are a “gift for the Church”…

The Journal reports: https://www.thejournal.ie/religious-publiosher-veritas-to-begin-winding-down-6295340-Feb2024/#:~:text=It%20is%20Ireland’s%20leading%20religious,by%20the%20end%20of%202024%E2%80%B3. VERITAS HAS ANNOUNCED it is set to wind down its business operations and close its retail outlets. It is Ireland’s leading religious publisher and retailer of…

Garda Vetting is not fit for purpose according to Michael Commane in his blog Occasional Scribbles. “…I actually find it a demeaning procedure. Every time I fill out those forms some…

After the close of a busy but fruitful pilgrimage season last night, it’s now time for recuperation, to come apart and rest awhile. It was lovely to meet lots of people…

Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David G. O’Connell, a native of Ireland who spent most of his four decades as a priest ministering in L.A.’s inner city, has died. He was…

Chris McDonnell, writing recently in the Catholic Times, said of the U.S. mid term elections, “What of the future? How will the Democracy of Immigrants that forms the United States rebuild trust and civility, what is required of each and every citizen?”
We wonder when we hear a President speak of ‘beautiful barbed wire’ being strung out along a border.
Chris also adds “Just as there is this fracture in our public life, for not only the US but other Western Democracies are also under threat, so too within our Christian community are fault lines and tensions apparent.”