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...
by soconaill | Apr 6, 2023 | Featured, WithSidebar
The crowds got even bigger and Jesus addressed them, ‘This is an evil generation; it is asking for a sign. The only sign it will be given is the sign of Jonah.’ (Luke 11:29) What could Jesus have meant by this reference to a character from an ancient...
by soconaill | Feb 25, 2023 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
In losing prestige and power in recent decades the Catholic church in Ireland must come to terms with that. One option is to recall the political powerlessness of Jesus and to welcome the same ‘cross’. Another, called ‘integralism’, is to...
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