Cathal BarrySt Colman’s Society for Catholic Liturgy has announced that the Fota VII International Liturgy Conference will take place in Cork, from July 5-7, 2014. The theme of the conference is In Persona Christi Agens: Aspects of the Ordained Ministry and will explore aspects of the ordained priestly ministry especially with reference to the sacred liturgy.…
Month: February 2014
Young girls are being sold a sexualised version of femininity
Maria ByrneBoys and girls should be able to choose any toy they wish
Legacy of Pope John Paul II alive in youth work
Mary O’Donnell meets Yvonne Rooney, the youth coordinator for the Derry diocese
Cardinal ‘obstructed justice’ in abuse case
Paul KeenanReleased file details prelates actions during investigations
Presentation nuns set for major merger
Merger between two key Presentation provinces will result in the creation of a new Irish province set to take effect in January 2015
The UN’s flawed report on the Vatican
Nuala O’LoanThe Church is ill-served by this lack of understanding
Journeying Together
Irish Church hosts migrant conference
Noah’s flood and God’s covenant with man
In the history of biblical archaeology, as it developed during the Victorian era, no episode is more remarkable that the discovery made by George Smith of the British Museum in 1872. On a clay tablet from the royal library of Nineveh he deciphered a much older Mesopotamian version of the flood story familiar from the…
Church decries Australian detention death
Migrants suffer ‘restrictive policies’
Towards a Catholic reawakening
Peter CostelloThis pamphlet is adapted from a lecture which Dermot Lane, the retired president of the Mater Dei Institute, gave to a conference on religions and beliefs in primary education held at St Patrick’s College back in April 2013. He drew on some of the material in the Report on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary…