by soconaill | Oct 25, 2022 | News
Will Cop27 confront the current global climate crisis in Egypt Seán McDonagh With the impact of the climate crisis on the poorest of the earth’s people ever more evident, will the governments of the wealthiest nations – including Ireland –...
by soconaill | Oct 7, 2022 | Education, Faith Formation, News, WithSidebar
No one should presume that they can ‘transmit’ their own faith to anyone else! This was the stark and yet encouraging message from Fr Michael Conway in a Zoom presentation to ACI on Thursday October 6th 2022. Emphasising the central importance of the grace...
by soconaill | Sep 29, 2022 | News, WithSidebar
A majority of 17,000 women surveyed internationally in 104 countries are concerned about the prevalence of abuse, racism, and sexism in church contexts. This is a finding of an International Survey of Catholic Women (ISCW) conducted by the Catholic Women Speak...
by soconaill | Sep 27, 2022 | News, WithSidebar
“For the poorest in our society, this is an emergency, not a crisis. We call on everyone, from public representatives to parishioners in our parishes, to come together in a spirit of solidarity and active concern for those who are in need among us at this...
by soconaill | Sep 22, 2022 | Abuse, News, WithSidebar
The Catholic Church body organising the 2023 Universal Synod on Synodality in Rome has strongly deplored the church’s ‘oppressive’ abuse of power in the past and re-emphasised the principle of the equality of dignity of all baptised members of the...
by soconaill | Sep 16, 2022 | Faith Formation, Family, News
The ‘one big day and that’s it’ approach to First Communion for children is set to end in Ireland’s largest diocese. Instead Dublin archdiocese is to move to a parish-and-family led model of preparation, in which children approaching...
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