by soconaill | Dec 19, 2022 | Abuse, Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
Are Irish bishops truly serious in echoing the view of Ireland’s National Synodal Synthesis – that a conclusive ‘reckoning’ on the issue of clerical sexual abuse of children has yet to happen in the church? If so will they now call upon the...
by soconaill | Sep 14, 2022 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
Christian orthodoxy has always seen Christ as king as well as prophet and priest – a king who will personally and visibly reign some day, following the second coming. In the meantime there is ‘the kingdom of God’ which Vatican 2 identifies with the...
by soconaill | Aug 26, 2022 | Articles, Faith Formation, Featured, WithSidebar
The popular Alpha programme of video introductions to Christianity is itself a reflection of the troubled history of the church. As its designers intended, it provokes questions that need discussion – of where the church has been in the past and where it...
by soconaill | Jul 18, 2022 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
In Canada in July 2022 at the request of ‘first nations’ peoples – whose children were kidnapped and abused in residential schools in the past (in an attempt to replace their native culture and beliefs with an oppressive European Christianity)...
by soconaill | May 13, 2022 | Articles, Catechesis, Education, Faith Formation, Featured, Schools, WithSidebar
In defending Ireland’s system of Catholic schools, Irish Catholic bishops and educationists have failed to promote a realistic shared understanding of religious faith development, post-Christendom – and are now placing an impossible burden upon committed...
by soconaill | Apr 29, 2022 | Articles, Environment, Featured, WithSidebar
With humans the likely cause of the next great extinction of life, Ireland’s foremost eco-warrior can’t sit still and warns us to begin creating liturgies to awaken a resistance. Sean McDonagh The publication in Paris of the Global Assessment Report in May...
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