by soconaill | Jan 1, 2019 | Articles, Faith Formation, Featured, WithSidebar
By Sean O’Conaill and Eugene McElhinney “I have integrity, but when winning gets in the way of integrity, integrity goes out the window.” 1 Attributed in 2011 to a seventeen-year-old contestant in the UK televised reality show, Young...
by soconaill | Dec 4, 2018 | Articles, Featured
René Girard’s insight into the desires that drive us is currently revolutionising the human sciences – but why do we tend unconsciously to adopt the desires of others? Here Sean O’Conaill attempts an answer. What underlies...
by Noel | Nov 17, 2018 | Articles, News
Dear Bishops, We write in the aftermath of the visit of Pope Francis. It was a strange few days. On the one hand, the palpable delight of so many in the visit of Pope Francis and the lift it has given to the Irish Church. On the other, a sinking feeling that the visit...
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...
by soconaill | Oct 2, 2018 | Articles, News
When Archbishop Desmond Connell ordained me to the priesthood on October 2nd, 1988, it seemed a good time to be a priest in Ireland. Fresh-faced and enthusiastic, I had high hopes. I was delighted to become part of a team conducting parish missions, as Irish...
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