by MartinM | Mar 2, 2017 | Articles, Featured
NCR are reporting that on Wednesday 1st March 2017, Irishwoman and abuse survivor, Marie Collins, who has served on the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors for the past three years, has announced her resignation. “She decided to leave the...
by soconaill | Feb 23, 2017 | Articles, Featured
On Jan 24th, 2017 the Irish Government established a commission of inquiry into the origin of false allegations of sexual abuse against the Garda whistleblower, Maurice McCabe. This is the latest in a long series of deeply depressing scandals involving all of the...
by soconaill | Feb 13, 2017 | Articles, Featured
I’m finding it increasingly difficult to discover a relationship between the Mass as I experience it these days and the community celebration of Eucharist for which I long. Clearly there is a link between the present form of our celebration of Mass in Ireland...
by soconaill | Jan 24, 2017 | Articles, Featured
(N.B. in light of new information received on Friday 27th Jan. 2017, this piece has been edited to correct our previous understanding of Jan. 24th, 2017 that, in line with precedent, Pope Francis would issue a textual response to the Ad Limina visit of Ireland’s...
by MartinM | Jan 14, 2017 | Articles, Featured, Press Releases
ACI EXPRESSES “DEEP DISAPPOINTMENT” The Association of Catholics in Ireland (ACI) expresses deep disappointment that the Irish Catholic Bishops Conference (ICBC) has been unable to agree to bring proposals on ending the celibacy requirement for priestly...
by soconaill | Nov 30, 2016 | Articles, Featured
Does the hierarchical Church overuse Latin to overawe, divide and exclude? Aidan Hart thinks so, and argues here for a change in the way Church documents are named. Language can be used to unite or to separate people, to clarify or to obscure and hide, to...
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