by soconaill | Jun 2, 2021 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
Why is it that the more ‘Church teaching’ expands, the less interested we become? Within weeks of first news of Ireland’s projected ‘Synodal Pathway’ on March 10th, 2021 – and before anyone knew what initial feedback Irish bishops...
by soconaill | May 22, 2021 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
“Unless I go, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.” (John 16:7) ‘Where is your God? ‘the sceptics ask – but sceptics too will catch a virus – and need the person standing next to them...
by soconaill | May 14, 2021 | Articles
“Many of the young have left because they have not found holiness in the Church, but rather mediocrity, presumption, division and corruption.” This is the conclusion of the 2018 World Synod of Catholic bishops on Youth.1 If Ireland’s bishops thought...
by soconaill | Mar 24, 2021 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
“…the only authority is the authority of service, the only power is the power of the cross.’ Pope Francis – quoted by Cardinal Mario Grech in his address to the bishops of Ireland, March 4th, 2021. ‘He’s just a nice guy. He really...
by soconaill | Feb 23, 2021 | Abuse, Articles, Featured, Safeguarding
In 1964, just three years short of ordination to the priesthood, the Jesuit scholastic Ken McCabe spent a week in Daingean reformatory, Co Offaly. Shocked at what he saw as the under-resourcing of the institution and the consequent impact on the staff and the boys...
by soconaill | Jan 23, 2021 | Articles, Faith Formation, Featured, Scripture Text
By far the worst thing ever to happen to the Christian Creeds of the early centuries was that they became tools of persecution by hunters of Christian heretics in the Middle Ages. (c. 476 CE – c. 1453) The second-worst thing that happened to them was their use...
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