by soconaill | Oct 28, 2021 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
‘Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses…’ What is it that prevents Christian clergy from passionately defending this, the Lord’s prayer, as the key to resolution not only of the world’s terrifying climate crisis...
by soconaill | Oct 24, 2021 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
For the earliest Christians the story of Jesus was ‘salvation’ right now – not just a promise of life after death. For Jews whose land was occupied by an often brutal foreign power a belief in Jesus’s resurrection was also a belief that...
by soconaill | Sep 23, 2021 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
“I personally deserve attacks and insults because I am a sinner, but the Church does not deserve them. They are the work of the devil. I have also said this to some of them.” So said Pope Francis in mid September 2021, in conversation with Slovakian...
by soconaill | Aug 23, 2021 | Articles, Books, Featured, WithSidebar
What exactly is holiness? Will we know it when we see it? Is it attainable by anyone, or only by those who have made a lifelong commitment to the ‘religious’ or ‘consecrated’ life and to celibacy? How does holiness relate – if at all...
by soconaill | Aug 7, 2021 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
“There’s a lot of people in Ireland today who want to live the Christian faith, who want to be Catholic, who want to publicly profess their Catholic Faith and feel they cannot do so because of ridicule, because, in some cases, of downright oppression of...
by soconaill | Jul 9, 2021 | Abuse, Articles, Featured, Safeguarding, WithSidebar
Are most of us without a ‘vocation’ to ‘the Christian life’? Dr Thomas O’Loughlin protests this mistaken understanding of ‘Vocations Sunday’ – as revealed by the global Covid-19 Crisis of 2020-21 – and calls for a...
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