Thomas O’Loughlin explains how choosing words with great care facilitates us in walking together as a wholly celebrant community.
Articles
Synodality Virtues: a Culture of Non-Deference
For Thomas O’Loughlin ‘Walking Together’ demands a culture of equal respect – from the start.
First Comes the Experience of God’s Unconditional Love
The importance of the Catechism is unquestionable, but, for Aidan Hart, it is the experience of God’s love that always comes first in the development of faith.
Cop26 and the Lord’s Prayer
Give us this day … only what we need – including hope.
Salvation and Social Media
Time for homilists to challenge the empire of media honour and shame.
Why does Pope Francis so often Speak of the Devil?
Patterns of attack on the Pope are familiar evidence of everyone’s adversary.
What is it to be Holy?
Still a vital question – after two millennia of disagreement.
The Creed and Fear of Ridicule
The trolling of Irish Christians today is a vital ‘learning moment’.
Lockdown Discoveries: What ‘Vocation’ Really Means
Do only those called to be clerics have a ‘vocation’. In the Covid-19 crisis of 2020-21, Thomas O’Loughlin sees the urgent message ‘Think Again!’
Church Teaching?
Has ‘church teaching’ become a misnomer for church verbiage?
Celebrity is Over – the Meaning of Pentecost
In a gathering world crisis no one is less – or more – important than anyone else!
Are Conservative Irish Catholics Ready for Mission?
How many young Irish Catholics are truly negative about the church’s ‘Synodal Pathway’?
Pope Francis and Authority: The Collapse of ‘Command Catholicism’
Has Pope Francis failed to reform the church – or made reform inevitable?
When Will Irish Bishops Get Serious About Synodality?
Synodality cannot happen in Ireland until Irish Bishops clearly affirm the primacy of individual conscience.
The Creed is for Whistleblowers – Not Dogmatists
The Christian Creed was originally an affirmation that those who followed Jesus faithfully could not be humiliated by an unjust state.