Pádraig McCarthy notes that many towns are proposing to keep Christmas lights up until the beginning of February, to bring light to the darkness in lockdown.
Westport has been doing it for the past nine years! Elphin and other towns …
A sketch about God on the RTÉ New Year’s Eve Countdown Show, intended as satire, did not comply with RTÉ’s own standards and broader regulations, the organisation said today.
In a statement, RTÉ said its Editorial Standards Board found that
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“THE CURIA IS THE POPE” is a new book that uncovers a little history, theology, and sociology, and justifies the impatience of the faithful with the self-serving bureaucracy that manages the pope and controls access to him. The curia
Show yourself to me Lord
Chris McDonnell CT January 08 2021
We have celebrated again the feast of Nativity, the coming of the Lord into the poverty of this world, a child born in a barn in the small …
THE FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY
Adventurers
It is a wonderful feast. It has to be properly celebrated. The dangerous temptation is that we can sentimentalise religion. We can easily get distracted with ‘Little Christmas’ or ‘Nollaig na mBan’ or even …
Interview: Dublin Archbishop-elect Dermot Farrell with Patsy McGarry, The Irish Times.
Installation going ahead on February 2nd.
“There’ll be no big hand-over…show papal bull (making the appointment) to College of Consultors. It doesn’t need a liturgical ceremony.”
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Press Statement from Tony Flannery
3rd January 2021
In the last while two senior members of the Catholic Church have made statements about the position of women in the Church, and specifically about women’s ordination.
Bishop Batzing, the …
Seán MacDonagh’s article from The Tablet 30 Dec 2020:
“Humanity is waging war on nature. This is suicidal. Nature always strikes back – and it is already doing so with growing force and fury.” The
Association of Catholic Priests
statement on
RTÉ’s New Year’s Eve Programme
Saturday 2nd January 2021
The ACP, on behalf of its member and Christians of all denominations, would like to express dismay at the decision of RTÉ to televise …
Covid-19 thrives when people are selfish
Western People 29.12.2020
It was a conversation about selfishness. Grandparents and their adult children were talking about that unending topic – ‘Young people today’. The parents of teenagers were eloquently lauding the virtues of …
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