“Women: The Elephant in the Church. A tract for our Times”

‘Synodality and the Ordination of Women’ first appeared in the July-August issue of The Furrow. Donal Dorr I’ve just been reading a report in the National Catholic Reporter about how the…

Cardinal Ouellet highlights importance of theological reflection on priesthood https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2021-04/cardinal-ouellet-priesthood-symposium-reflection.html

Confession… Tue 17th Oct – Confession – Yesterday and Today It is very rare to come across a ‘thinking’ Catholic who doesn’t have a problem with Confession. The days of…

Brendan Hoban, in a recent Western People column, cast an eye over the opposition to Pope Francis. “When Benedict was pope, cardinals were falling over themselves hanging on to his every word, delivering reprimands to those who questioned papal tactics and giving sermonettes on loyalty and obedience to the pope. Now with a pope singing from a different hymn-sheet, for some of his cardinals loyalty and obedience seem to be less important.”

The death has occured, on Thursday 29 May, at Crofton, Maryland of Fr. Paul Surlis

From CatholicNews.ie – News service for the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference – link to article: https://catholicnews.ie/irish-synod-prepares-vision-of-renewal-for-national-submission-ahead-of-universal-assembly/?fbclid=IwAR0quyOYGg9XZxU5beHU74h8hnrKrkr_EWawFiT6mKzIW0GLVzDIna7wsi4 The Synodal Pathway of the Catholic Church in Ireland has invited submissions from dioceses…