by soconaill | Jan 4, 2021 | News
Sidelined Irish priest Tony Flannery has challenged the Church’s doctrinal watchdog, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, to say whether it will ask Bishop Dermot Farrell – Archbishop-elect of Dublin – to sign a document which states that...
by soconaill | Jan 1, 2021 | News, Prayer
by soconaill | Dec 30, 2020 | News
Bishop George Bätzing of Limburg, head of the German bishops’ conference, has called himself a ‘conservative’ in looking for change in Catholic Church policy on a range of controversial issues according to a December 30th report in CRUX:...
by soconaill | Dec 30, 2020 | News
With the ‘physicality’ of professional rugby ‘ramping up’ in recent years, ‘only now’ are the dangers to long-term health being realised – according to recently retired and lauded Ireland Rugby captain Rory Best (pictured...
by soconaill | Dec 29, 2020 | News
Dublin’s next archbishop – in succession to Archbishop Diarmuid Martin – is to be Bishop Dermot Farrell of Ossory. Appointed Bishop of Ossory in 2018, Bishop Farrell has a long history of association with Maynooth College. Born in County Westmeath,...
by soconaill | Dec 15, 2020 | News
The medievalist Dyan Elliott in history at Northwestern University has just published the accessible 380-page scholarly book The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and Medieval Clergy (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020) – a book for contemporary book-reading...
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