by soconaill | Jan 17, 2024 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
“Is God Calling You to be a Diocesan Priest? Come and See. Take the Risk for Christ.” This is what faces you when you click https://vocations.ie/ the website of Ireland’s Catholic “National Vocations Office”. Asked by Ardal...
by soconaill | Dec 10, 2023 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
Though always a message of liberation the meaning of the crucifixion today remains distorted by a medieval mistake. ‘Rather than saying that the Church has a mission, we affirm that Church ‘is’ mission.‘ Those are just two of 110 occurrences of...
by soconaill | Jun 14, 2023 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
Faced with apparently unending scandal – and dwindling credibility and authority in the societies it has scandalised – should Catholic church leadership look to scripture, especially the story of King David of Israel, for insight into a scenario for...
by soconaill | Feb 25, 2023 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
In losing prestige and power in recent decades the Catholic church in Ireland must come to terms with that. One option is to recall the political powerlessness of Jesus and to welcome the same ‘cross’. Another, called ‘integralism’, is to...
by soconaill | Dec 19, 2022 | Abuse, Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
Are Irish bishops truly serious in echoing the view of Ireland’s National Synodal Synthesis – that a conclusive ‘reckoning’ on the issue of clerical sexual abuse of children has yet to happen in the church? If so will they now call upon the...
by soconaill | Sep 14, 2022 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
Christian orthodoxy has always seen Christ as king as well as prophet and priest – a king who will personally and visibly reign some day, following the second coming. In the meantime there is ‘the kingdom of God’ which Vatican 2 identifies with the...
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