Women’s Empowerment Needs Courage & Conscience: Rose O’Connor
“The spiritual leadership of women depends on the witness, verity of courageous women. It depends as well on the honesty of conscientious men who will call on their own systems of Gospel truth”. This was a keynote contribution to the synodal process in the...
Ireland’s Synodal Pathway Not a ‘Parliamentary Debate’: Chair
In a statement that seems designed to reduce expectation of major change in church disciplines such as priestly celibacy and the male-only priesthood, the Chairwoman of Ireland’s Synodal Pathway Steering Committee has made clear that what will not happen over...
Synod 2021-23 – The Fundamental Question
To clarify, Pope Francis has committed the Church to a new way of ‘walking together’ on mission, called synodality – to echo the togetherness of the original Christian followers of the Lord and to bind us together in a common renewed missionary...
New Catechetical Model Needs Properly Prepared Liturgy
“The Sunday liturgy is frequently not a celebration which inspires, stimulates or supports a critical engagement with faith.” So insists Giovanna Feeley, catechist, in an article for the Irish Times on September 29th – in advocating a new...
Some Media Doing ‘Devil’s Work’: Pope Francis
“Still alive, even though some people wanted me to die.” This was Pope Francis’s frank response to an inquiry on his health, on his first foreign trip since his abdominal surgery in early July 2021. The question came from Slovakian Jesuits –...ACI – Latest News
The Declaration of a 'Synodal Pathway' towards a Synodal Assembly for the Catholic Church in Ireland (March 10 2021) marks a watershed in its history - a return to dialogue and the task of renewal.
Apprised of our concerns in 2019 for the slow progress of co-responsibility and faith formation at parish level, our bishops have already shown evidence of a new commitment to listening, to solidarity with the excluded and to 'walking together' - after so many arid decades of walking apart.
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Apprised of our concerns in 2019 for the slow progress of co-responsibility and faith formation at parish level, our bishops have already shown evidence of a new commitment to listening, to solidarity with the excluded and to 'walking together' - after so many arid decades of walking apart.
So here we offer the ever-trustable gateway to the future: our globally known Prayer Page:
Prayer of the Faithful
If you like what you see here why not support our work?
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