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...
by soconaill | Oct 9, 2020 | Articles, Faith Formation, Featured
54 years after Cardinal William Conway foretold the end of the ‘old paternalism’ in the Irish Catholic Church – in the year that the pope’s own closest adviser on the progress of child safeguarding in the church warned that the same...
by soconaill | Oct 7, 2020 | Faith Formation, News
“Catholic Church documents on the handing on of the faith declare unambiguously that it is the primary responsibility of the parents and the family. This pandemic-infested year provided a good opportunity to put this teaching into practice.” So declared...
by soconaill | Dec 17, 2019 | Articles, Education, Faith Formation, Featured
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...
by soconaill | Jan 1, 2019 | Articles, Faith Formation, Featured, WithSidebar
By Sean O’Conaill and Eugene McElhinney “I have integrity, but when winning gets in the way of integrity, integrity goes out the window.” 1 Attributed in 2011 to a seventeen-year-old contestant in the UK televised reality show, Young...
by soconaill | Jul 7, 2017 | Articles, Catechesis, Education, Faith Formation, Featured, Parish Development, Schools
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...
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