PureMentalNI: ‘Children of the Troubles’ have had Enough of Adult Inaction
Prayers “Everybody here knows someone who has taken their own life, and there’s been no change and its absolutely heartbreaking.” This was Lucinda Graham – interviewed for the BBC in Belfast’s Cornmarket on Jan 4th, 2020. She and dozens of other...
Irish Catholic Schools: Avoidance of Research Threatens Integrity
Prayers ‘I was a hypocrite through need’ – so declares Peter Gunning, retired Irish Primary Catholic School Principal, in an article for the Irish Times, 17th Dec 2019. He explains that, had he still been in that principal’s role he could not in...
Faith Formation and Fear of Shame: Sean O’Conaill
While the absence of teenagers and young people generally from our churches has been growing for more than a decade, there is no evidence that the Irish Catholic Bishops Conference has ever systematically researched the causes of this. Why is this, when the...
Faith formation? Take it out of schools altogether!
Sean O’Conaill argues that with the continuity of Catholic faith in Ireland now seriously in question – and with controversy growing over equal access to primary schooling for all – it is time to abandon school-centred Catholic faith formation...
Faith formation: the role of home, parish and school
Aidan Hart is a former Head of Religious Education in several large Catholic comprehensive schools in England and Wales, retired senior inspector with the N. Ireland Department of Education and Training and was the first N. Ireland Department of Education...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:
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