This piece was sent by Sean O’Conaill.  It is a review of Rodney Stark’s book, The Triumph of Christianity, which, according to Sean, does an excellent job in dismantling the arguments of Richard Dawkins

This woman raises an interesting question about the Our Father.  Can anyone throw light on it for her?  And maybe one of our Scripture scholar readers might give an academic answer.

Paddy Banville is a priest of Ferns diocese.  Last autumn he created a stir, or, as he says himself, stirred up a hurricane, when he wrote an article, and then went on Morning Ireland talking about the prevalence of child abuse in society. This is a fuller expose of his ideas.

Prevention and the maximum empowerment of victims must be our goal; why can’t it be our common goal, asks Fr. Paddy Banville

The Richard Dawkins survey of Religion in UK tries to assess the real meaning of answers to the religion question in the 2011 Census. See here for more information.

Kevin Myers: Any senator or TD who tried to raise the issue of clerical child abuse in the Dail would have been shouted down

Tuesday February 14 2012

IF the Vatican was in any doubt about the relative futility of …

Would you believe it?  Prime Time Investigates gets an award tonight.  I have no doubt that, if we hadn’t been in the position to challenge them through the courts, the award would probably have gone to Mission to Prey.

If …

The ACP, in conjunction with some others, are organising a gathering, which we are calling “Towards an Assembly of the Irish Catholic Church”.   It will take place on Monday, May 7th in the Regency Hotel, Dublin.

This is meant to …

This is an interesting email that one of our members got from a parishioner in relation to the new responses at Mass.  Maybe it is something we priests might keep in mind.

A meeting of Clogher ACP took place in Clones Co. Monaghan on January 25^th 2012. Twenty seven Priests attended, including Bishop Liam, two priests from Armagh Diocese and three priests from the Diocese of Meath. John Waters, well known …

We continue to make steady if slow progress.

We will not call a meeting of priests out of ministry until we have an Advisory Board in place.

We …