by soconaill | Jun 10, 2019 | Articles, Featured
That Jesus called people to ‘follow me’ in the Gospel is indisputable, but was he calling some to a primary role of ‘ministry’ and others to be merely receivers of that ministry – a secondary role? All of the mainstream Christian churches...
by soconaill | May 23, 2019 | Articles, Featured
Who in your parish prepares and reads out the ‘Prayers of the Faithful’, heard after the Gospel and Homily at weekend Mass? As the crisis of the Irish Catholic clergy becomes more intense, some bishops are sounding the alarm and calling for...
by Aidan Hart | May 14, 2019 | Articles, Featured, Uncategorized
The Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research responds to Pope Francis Two days ago now, on May 7 Pope Francis revealed that, after almost three years of study, his own experts could not agree on whether women were ordained as deacons in the same way that men were in...
by soconaill | Mar 25, 2019 | Articles, Featured
‘Status Anxiety and the Scam Economy’: that’s the title of an opinion article in the New York Times, mid-March 2019. Triggered by the revelation of high-profile cheating in the admissions process to elite US universities such as Harvard and Yale, the...
by soconaill | Feb 7, 2019 | Articles, Featured
Heavily influenced by Thomas Merton, Richard Rohr OFM has for years promoted the importance of the Christian contemplative tradition – long predating the Reformations of the 1500s – as a means of healing Christian divisions and the wider Earth...
by Aidan Hart | Jan 1, 2019 | Articles, Featured
A New Year’s Resolution for ACI Catholics The new year is a time of hope, a time when we hope good things will happen and bad things will change and go away, a time for a New Year’s resolution and for a fresh start. That is a necessary ideal and we...
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