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...
by soconaill | Apr 5, 2022 | Articles, Faith Formation, Featured, WithSidebar
In the wake of global institutional failure, can Catholic faith any longer be, essentially, faith in an organisation? ~ When will Irish church leaders begin to speak creatively and convincingly about Christian faith in the wake of Christian institutional failure?...
by soconaill | Mar 2, 2022 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
“We see many of the Euro-Atlantic countries are actually rejecting their roots, including the Christian values that constitute the basis of Western civilisation. They are denying moral principles and all traditional identities: national, cultural, religious and...
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