by soconaill | Jun 17, 2024 | Articles, Environment, Faith Formation, Featured, Teilhard de Chardin, WithSidebar
Reformulating the Classical Faith First published in The Furrow, April 2024 Hilda Geraghty Abstract: The article presents an overview, in thumb-nail sketches, of new perspectives in theology as it meets today’s cosmic worldview. It offers a dynamic, holistic...
by soconaill | May 22, 2024 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
If the Catholic church is in crisis in 2024, so is the world. When scientists tell us we are exhausting the key resources of our planet, and political leaders struggle to contain the violence that can erupt anywhere – and extremists invent conspiracies freely on...
by soconaill | Jan 17, 2024 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
“Is God Calling You to be a Diocesan Priest? Come and See. Take the Risk for Christ.” This is what faces you when you click https://vocations.ie/ the website of Ireland’s Catholic “National Vocations Office”. Asked by Ardal...
by soconaill | Dec 10, 2023 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
Though always a message of liberation the meaning of the crucifixion today remains distorted by a medieval mistake. ‘Rather than saying that the Church has a mission, we affirm that Church ‘is’ mission.‘ Those are just two of 110 occurrences of...
by soconaill | Oct 22, 2023 | Featured, WithSidebar
After decades of indecision on adult catechesis and faith development Irish bishops could do worse than watch – and arrange for every parish in Ireland to watch – the BBC series ‘Colosseum’. Begun in the first Christian century as the...
by soconaill | Jun 14, 2023 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
Faced with apparently unending scandal – and dwindling credibility and authority in the societies it has scandalised – should Catholic church leadership look to scripture, especially the story of King David of Israel, for insight into a scenario for...
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