by soconaill | Aug 7, 2021 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
“There’s a lot of people in Ireland today who want to live the Christian faith, who want to be Catholic, who want to publicly profess their Catholic Faith and feel they cannot do so because of ridicule, because, in some cases, of downright oppression of...
by soconaill | Jul 9, 2021 | Abuse, Articles, Featured, Safeguarding, WithSidebar
Are most of us without a ‘vocation’ to ‘the Christian life’? Dr Thomas O’Loughlin protests this mistaken understanding of ‘Vocations Sunday’ – as revealed by the global Covid-19 Crisis of 2020-21 – and calls for a...
by soconaill | Jun 2, 2021 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
Why is it that the more ‘Church teaching’ expands, the less interested we become? Within weeks of first news of Ireland’s projected ‘Synodal Pathway’ on March 10th, 2021 – and before anyone knew what initial feedback Irish bishops...
by soconaill | May 22, 2021 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
“Unless I go, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.” (John 16:7) ‘Where is your God? ‘the sceptics ask – but sceptics too will catch a virus – and need the person standing next to them...
by soconaill | May 17, 2021 | Featured, Statements, WithSidebar
‘I have striven to raise ye in a pride for the noble people before ye who fell in love with human nature an’ through human nature fell in love with God.’ Bryan McMahon, Children of the Rainbow When two people find each other, fall in love and care...
by soconaill | Mar 24, 2021 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
“…the only authority is the authority of service, the only power is the power of the cross.’ Pope Francis – quoted by Cardinal Mario Grech in his address to the bishops of Ireland, March 4th, 2021. ‘He’s just a nice guy. He really...
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