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Note: A seminar entitled Personal and Ancestral Healing will be held in Lady’s Island Community Centre on Saturday8th March from 10am to 4pm. Cost €40 with refreshments included. Facilitators –…

How we react to certain events, situations and people can be a source of great difficulty for us all and at the same time our reactions can be our greatest…

‘Playing God’ traces the history of Catholic conservatism gone extreme BY TOM ROBERTS This is the link to the NCR Online article (which is reprinted below): https://www.ncronline.org/culture/book-reviews/playing-god-traces-history-catholic-conservatism-gone-extreme A disturbing symbiosis…

’Unfolding’ 33rd Sunday of the Year link: https://youtu.be/49ep2lYLk8c

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.’

Church must waive rights for common good Western People 27.4.2021 One of the casualties of the COVID restrictions has been public worship. There are many important reasons why this is…