by Aidan Hart | Sep 4, 2019 | Articles, Featured
I reflected last Sunday morning at Mass on the appropriateness of the sequence of the confession of our sins and acceptance of God’s forgiveness, followed by our expression of praise and love of God in the Gloria and then finally of expressing the important...
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 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...
by Aidan Hart | Nov 16, 2018 | Articles, Featured, Uncategorized
(Email addressed to the ‘Letters’ Editor, The Irish Times, Dublin, Dec 12th 2018) Sir, Could your editorial, reporting and commissioning staff seriously consider discontinuing and discouraging usage of the term ‘the Catholic Church’ as...
by Aidan Hart | Nov 3, 2018 | Articles, Featured, Uncategorized
Women deacons – when will we know? When Pope Francis created the Study Commission on the Women’s Diaconate on 2 August 2016, it was generally assumed that he had enjoined it to consider the possibility of allowing women...
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