by soconaill | Jun 14, 2023 | Articles, Featured
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
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
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
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...
by soconaill | Aug 26, 2022 | Articles, Faith Formation, Featured, WithSidebar
The popular Alpha programme of video introductions to Christianity is itself a reflection of the troubled history of the church. As its designers intended, it provokes questions that need discussion – of where the church has been in the past and where it...
by soconaill | Jul 18, 2022 | Articles, Featured
In Canada in July 2022 at the request of ‘first nations’ peoples – whose children were kidnapped and abused in residential schools in the past (in an attempt to replace their native culture and beliefs with an oppressive European Christianity)...
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