New Year Prayer 2021
‘Conservative’ German Head Bishop Calls for Change
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:...
Catholic Schools to Abandon Heavy Contact Rugby?
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...
Dublin’s New Archbishop – Dermot Farrell
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,...
‘Reviewer Discretion Advised’ : Thomas J Farrell
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...ACI – Latest News
With our church crisis deepening daily we wonder if the ongoing pandemic will shake our clerical leadership out of its inertia on church reform and hopeless denial of dialogue.
Conscious that all Minds and Hearts -across this whole planet, our only Home - will now be joined in the deepest prayer for those endangered, and for their rescuers - we await in confidence the Lord who crosses the deep to save us all - to lead us to the very different World - and different Church - that awaits.
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