Recently I attended a symposium where the keynote speaker was a man exactly my age. Since we had both lived through the same cultural and religious changes in our lives, I resonated with much of what he said and with how he felt about things. And in his assessment of both the state of affairs…
Christ’s Illumination Upon Every Heart by Eamon Flanagan (Kolbe Publications, €7.50) The author of this handbook is a Vincentian who works in Dublin; indeed the landmark spire of his church, St Peter’s, Phibsborough, standing at a major crossroads, decorates his cover. That notion of serving the church at a crossroads is a theme which might…
“The Catholic Church is facing its most serious crisis in 500 years.” So, at any rate, claims Villanova University’s Prof. Massimo Faggioli in an article for the prestigious Foreign Affairs magazine entitled ‘The Catholic Church’s biggest crisis since the Reformation’. In an unusual move, the article can be read at foreignaffairs.com without registration, which at…
Bishop Laurence Forristal, who has died aged 87, has been described as having worked “tirelessly in service of the people of God”. Kilkenny-born Bishop Forristal served as bishop of Ossory from 1981 to 2007, and has been praised by the current Bishop of Ossory, Dr Dermot Farrell. Offering his sympathies to Dr Forristal’s family, friends…
The Archdiocese of Boston announced last week that it is expanding its sex abuse investigation to include all three of its seminaries. The investigation will now include Pope St John XXIII National Seminary and Redemptoris Mater Seminary, along with St John’s Seminary, which has been under investigation since August after two of its seminarians filed…
Dear Editor, Your editor’s comment on the need to present young people with real challenges (IC 11/10/2018) exposes a very serious problem in our efforts to pass on the Faith to our children, the gravity of which our Church seems unable to grasp, as comments by Bishop Brendan Leahy on the YouCat for Kids suggest.…
Michael Bublé has said in an interview ahead of the release of his new album next month that he made it to thank fans globally for praying for his family when his son Noah, who is now in remission, was battling liver cancer. “…I felt a debt of gratitude, deeper than I can explain, to…
Vatican: Archbishop Eamon Martin says the Synod on Youth has just completed its second stage in which there was focus on trying to help young people find the Lord, “but also really weigh up what it is that God might be calling them to do in their lives”, thus the need for accompaniment. The…
Hannah Brockhaus Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Washington’s Cardinal Donald Wuerl today, while asking the cardinal to continue leading the Archdiocese of Washington on an interim basis until a permanent successor is appointed. In a letter to Wuerl obtained by CNA today, Pope Francis told the cardinal: “Your renunciation is a sign of…
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