by soconaill | Dec 19, 2022 | Abuse, Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
Are Irish bishops truly serious in echoing the view of Ireland’s National Synodal Synthesis – that a conclusive ‘reckoning’ on the issue of clerical sexual abuse of children has yet to happen in the church? If so will they now call upon the...
by soconaill | Nov 20, 2022 | Featured, WithSidebar
“The fact is that now it is no longer the church scrutinizing the signs of the times in the light of the Gospel. It is also the signs of the times – beginning with the voices of victims and survivors of abuse – scrutinizing the church in the light of...
by soconaill | Sep 14, 2022 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
Christian orthodoxy has always seen Christ as king as well as prophet and priest – a king who will personally and visibly reign some day, following the second coming. In the meantime there is ‘the kingdom of God’ which Vatican 2 identifies with the...
by soconaill | Aug 26, 2022 | Articles, Faith Formation, Featured, WithSidebar
The popular Alpha programme of video introductions to Christianity is itself a reflection of the troubled history of the church. As its designers intended, it provokes questions that need discussion – of where the church has been in the past and where it...
by soconaill | Aug 16, 2022 | Featured, Synodal Pathway, WithSidebar
“Canon law has to be changed …” Anthony Neville, ACI Steering Group Chair, interviewed by RTE in Athlone Background Pope Francis has been speaking about synodality since 2015 when he called for a listening church, walking together in...
by soconaill | Jul 18, 2022 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
In Canada in July 2022 at the request of ‘first nations’ peoples – whose children were kidnapped and abused in residential schools in the past (in an attempt to replace their native culture and beliefs with an oppressive European Christianity)...
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