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...
by soconaill | Nov 29, 2022 | News, WithSidebar
‘Polarisation is not Catholic,’ insisted Pope Francis on Mon November 22nd, 2022 – to a team of journalists from the Jesuit magazine America. He also made clear that he retains a very vivid and detailed recollection of his visit to Ireland in August...
by soconaill | Nov 20, 2022 | Featured, WithSidebar
“The fact is that now it is no longer the church scrutinizing the signs of the times in the light of the Gospel. It is also the signs of the times – beginning with the voices of victims and survivors of abuse – scrutinizing the church in the light of...
by soconaill | Nov 5, 2022 | News, WithSidebar
So varied and even contradictory are the contexts in which we use the word ‘sacrifice’ that the term is almost useless. The medieval origins of much of our theology, and the frequent use of the word in the context of the nation state and international...
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