When did Jesus call anyone to a secondary role in the church?
That Jesus called people to ‘follow me’ in the Gospel is indisputable, but was he calling some to a primary role of ‘ministry’ and others to be merely receivers of that ministry – a secondary role? All of the mainstream Christian churches are organised on that pattern...
‘Lay involvement’ – is it happening in your parish?
Who in your parish prepares and reads out the ‘Prayers of the Faithful’, heard after the Gospel and Homily at weekend Mass? As the crisis of the Irish Catholic clergy becomes more intense, some bishops are sounding the alarm and calling for...
Pope Francis’ experts disagree on the issue of women deacons
The Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research responds to Pope Francis Two days ago now, on May 7 Pope Francis revealed that, after almost three years of study, his own experts could not agree on whether women were ordained as deacons in the same way that men were in...
21st Century ‘Status Anxiety’ is Gospel ‘Worldliness’
‘Status Anxiety and the Scam Economy’: that’s the title of an opinion article in the New York Times, mid-March 2019. Triggered by the revelation of high-profile cheating in the admissions process to elite US universities such as Harvard and Yale, the...
Richard Rohr – Jesus and the Cross
Heavily influenced by Thomas Merton, Richard Rohr OFM has for years promoted the importance of the Christian contemplative tradition – long predating the Reformations of the 1500s – as a means of healing Christian divisions and the wider Earth crisis. Now reportedly...ACI – Latest News
Welcome to our new ACI Look, enabled by the generosity of our members!
In December 2019 we were waiting patiently for a response from the Irish Catholic Bishops Conference - to ACI's Report on lay Involvement in Parishes, in light of the vocational call to all of the baptised at Vatican II.
We had no idea of what would be hitting the whole world when this new 'Look' would launch. Or that intense prayer would be needed right now - to maintain serenity as family life is disrupted, and 'home schooling' may well be ongoing - and very close and dear loved ones may be in danger of leaving us without a proper 'goodbye'.
Conscious that all Minds and Hearts -across this whole planet, our only Home - will now be joined in the deepest prayer for those endangered, and for their rescuers - we await in confidence the Lord who crosses the deep to save us all - to lead us to the very different World - and different Church - that awaits.
And here we offer the ever-trustable gateway to the future: our globally known Prayer Page:
Prayer of the Faithful
Support our work
Recent Comments