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 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 | 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...
by soconaill | Jan 7, 2021 | Faith Formation, Featured
By January 5th 2021 there had been thousands of outraged phone calls to RTE about a satirical New Year sketch referring to God the Father as worthy of imprisonment for forcing himself upon a young woman. On January 7th the Irish Catholic weekly reported that several...
by soconaill | Nov 13, 2020 | Articles, Books, Faith Formation, Family, Featured, Parish Development, Prayer
In the wake of good news from Dublin of the potential of family-led preparation of children for early sacraments we hear also that parents are especially committed to family and deeply appreciative of the welcome given to them by parishes in this new model. They are...
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