by soconaill | Mar 15, 2023 | News
On its ‘Synodal Way’ the German Catholic church has voted in favour of church blessings for same sex couples, the ordination of women as deacons, an end to mandatory celibacy for priests and to the ban on lay people delivering homilies at Mass. A...
by soconaill | Mar 6, 2023 | News, Upcoming Events
“It shall not be so among you!” René Girard and the Challenge of Truly Being Church Michael Kirwan SJ ZOOM – Thu 30th March – 8.00 pm “But Jesus called them to him and said, ‘You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it...
by soconaill | Mar 3, 2023 | News, Synodal Pathway
In a defence of his appeal for the admission to the Eucharist of divorced and remarried Catholics, and those in LGBT+ relationships, Cardinal Robert McElroy, bishop of San Diego, California, has questioned a 17th century doctrinal innovation that made only sexual sins...
by edel | Feb 24, 2023 | News, Uncategorized, WithSidebar
Remembering Bishop David O’Connell The ACI steering group are deeply saddened by the traumatic death of Bishop David O’Connell at his home in Los Angeles last weekend. David chose to live his ministry in solidarity with the oppressed and marginalised in St...
by soconaill | Feb 20, 2023 | Abuse, News
The Church too is in need of conversion, insisted Archbishop Eamon Martin in a wide-ranging Zoom presentation to ACI on Thursday February 16th, 2023. Dealing with ‘sin’ as the whole range of human failings that harm our relationships Archbishop Eamon...
by soconaill | Feb 16, 2023 | News, Synodal Pathway
Background Last week, from 5 to 12 February, Archbishop Martin along with thirteen other delegates from across Ireland, attended the first ever European Assembly of a Synod within the Catholic Church, in Prague, Czechia. This was one of seven continental assemblies...
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