Wishing you every blessing this Christmas

    A Russian funeral            Alexei Navalny March 1, 2024 “You were not afraid. We are not afraid.” At the closed gates of the church -the Ikon of the Mother…

Regional meetings in support of the well-being of priests were held during February in Kilkenny, Tuam, Cork, Letterkenny, Dublin, Limerick and Armagh.

“This Holy Week we won’t be acting it out in a pageant, instead we will be living it out”

Colm Holmes from We Are Church Ireland writes: Donal Dorr gave a great talk on 17 November 2022 to WAC Ireland in Mercy International Centre, Dublin. This is a link to…

Note: Next seminar on Personal and Family Tree Healing is in Tallaght Priory Retreat Centre on Sat next 13th April from 10-4pm. Contact there for bookings. Tue 9th April –…

The issuing of his 11 page letter by former nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano raises many questions; as many about his own motives as about what he alleges.
Two articles, one in the National Catholic Reporter and the other in The Washington Post attempt to fill in the background to the issuing of the letter and the influence that conservative catholic media organisations played.

The Washington Post article says “news this week that Catholic journalists were involved in editing and distributing a Vatican diplomat’s explosive and largely unverified letter calling for the pope’s resignation reveals an influential and tightly knit conservative Catholic digital media network that’s been particularly active during the tenure of its nemesis, Pope Francis.”
The article offers two ways to view these journalists;
quoting a ‘conservative lay leader’ who says ““This whole episode seems like total Fake News … The allegations of sexual abuse coverup “have to be investigated, wherever they lead. But the way this came out, it really struck me: ‘They’re really out to get Francis.’ ”
and from ‘one commentator in the conservative Catholic media sphere’;
“They’re not trying to be objective,” the person said. “They are trying to evangelize; they’re trying to spread the good news, spread the message as they understand it. They are activists.”

Cui bono? Who benefits?