by soconaill | Jun 14, 2023 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
Faced with apparently unending scandal – and dwindling credibility and authority in the societies it has scandalised – should Catholic church leadership look to scripture, especially the story of King David of Israel, for insight into a scenario for...
by soconaill | Apr 6, 2023 | Featured, WithSidebar
The crowds got even bigger and Jesus addressed them, ‘This is an evil generation; it is asking for a sign. The only sign it will be given is the sign of Jonah.’ (Luke 11:29) What could Jesus have meant by this reference to a character from an ancient...
by soconaill | Feb 25, 2023 | Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
In losing prestige and power in recent decades the Catholic church in Ireland must come to terms with that. One option is to recall the political powerlessness of Jesus and to welcome the same ‘cross’. Another, called ‘integralism’, is to...
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 | Jan 1, 2023 | News, WithSidebar
Already, in the plenitude of reactions to the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on Sunday 31st December, 2022, a paradox is plain. No one could doubt Benedict’s devotion, from first to last, to the living truths of orthodox Catholic belief. And yet in Ireland,...
by soconaill | Dec 19, 2022 | Abuse, Articles, Featured, WithSidebar
Are Irish bishops truly serious in echoing the view of Ireland’s National Synodal Synthesis – that a conclusive ‘reckoning’ on the issue of clerical sexual abuse of children has yet to happen in the church? If so will they now call upon the...
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