by soconaill | Sep 23, 2021 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
“I personally deserve attacks and insults because I am a sinner, but the Church does not deserve them. They are the work of the devil. I have also said this to some of them.” So said Pope Francis in mid September 2021, in conversation with Slovakian...
by soconaill | Aug 23, 2021 | Articles, Books, Featured, WithSidebar
What exactly is holiness? Will we know it when we see it? Is it attainable by anyone, or only by those who have made a lifelong commitment to the ‘religious’ or ‘consecrated’ life and to celibacy? How does holiness relate – if at all...
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...
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