by soconaill | Dec 4, 2020 | Articles, Featured
Reacting to the long awaited response of the Irish Bishops to ACI proposals for change made in 2019, the ACI Steering Group advises members and all lay people not to wait for bishops to act. ACI 2019 proposals Oct 1st 2019 ACI meeting with two bishops Response by Two...
by soconaill | Nov 17, 2020 | Articles, Featured
It is impossible to watch the first episode of the fourth Netflix ‘season’ of The Crown without being appalled at the prospect of going further. That episode alone, especially for those who have lived through those same years, is both moving and horrifying. It relates...
by soconaill | Nov 13, 2020 | Articles, Books, Faith Formation, Family, Featured, Parish Development, Prayer
In the wake of good news from Dublin of the potential of family-led preparation of children for early sacraments we hear also that parents are especially committed to family and deeply appreciative of the welcome given to them by parishes in this new model. They are...
by soconaill | Oct 16, 2020 | Articles, Featured
For the earliest Christians, Jesus’s Resurrection had set them free from the worst kind of fear – that the judgement of Rome was God’s judgement also. Without an army, Jesus had defeated the world’s greatest power, simply by speaking the truth. The...
by soconaill | Oct 9, 2020 | Articles, Faith Formation, Featured
54 years after Cardinal William Conway foretold the end of the ‘old paternalism’ in the Irish Catholic Church – in the year that the pope’s own closest adviser on the progress of child safeguarding in the church warned that the same paternalism is still...
by soconaill | Oct 3, 2020 | Articles, Featured
In commenting on an earlier feature – Why Parish? – Neil Bray asked ‘what do we mean by Catholic Community?’ Asked to consider giving us a new feature on that subject, Neil sent us what follows: a summary of, and reflection on the celestial as...
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