by soconaill | Oct 16, 2017 | Articles, Featured
In what he sees as a seriously dark night for the Catholic Church in Ireland and elsewhere, Aidan Hart finds hope and light in the possibility of apology and forgiveness for serious recent mistakes of leadership. The courage and dedication of former...
by soconaill | Sep 12, 2017 | Articles, Featured
A call to Christian ‘mission’ is a call to ‘go out’ into the world – to spread a faith or practice of some kind – to strangers. So how would you respond to a call to ‘mission’ in today’s Ireland? What questions...
by soconaill | Sep 7, 2017 | Articles, Featured
Must Catholics believe that God is violent? Taught that the Mass is a ‘Holy Sacrifice’ must we therefore believe that ‘the Father’ required a violent sacrifice to still his anger, and that this is the central message of the Eucharist? Never...
by soconaill | Sep 3, 2017 | Articles, Featured
Aidan Hart is a former Head of RE in schools, with experience as a N.Ireland Department of Education inspector for school-based religious education, and in the facilitation of inter-Christian and inter-faith discussion. Here he responds to the reported call by...
by soconaill | Aug 14, 2017 | Articles, Featured
“The challenge for Church is not just to find personnel to maintain traditional structures but how to look forward, and not back, and adapt in such a way that we cease to be focussed on maintenance, and develop laity and clergy in a way that they are fit for...
by Aidan Hart | Aug 6, 2017 | Articles, Featured
Aidan Hart challenges the lack of effective response to the various crises in today’s Catholic Church The old adage in the title of this article, used by Benjamin Franklin, could not be more apt than it is today, to...
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