by soconaill | Jan 7, 2020 | Articles, Featured, Schools
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...
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 | Oct 1, 2019 | Education, Parish Development, Statements
The following ACI Documents were presented to the Irish Bishops Conference in time for their October 2019 meeting at Maynooth. We have been assured that they have been added to the documentation to be considered by the conference in the task of renewal, via the...
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...
by soconaill | May 3, 2016 | Articles, Catechesis, Education, Faith Formation, Featured, Parish Development, Schools
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...
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