Too Many Steps Too Far
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...
Just in Time!
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...
How White Men Lost the Meaning of Redemption
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...
October 2020: The Old Paternalism is Still Killing Us
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...
Catholic Community: The Widest Canvas
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...ACI – Latest News
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