Pope Leo XIV sat in the Stade de France just outside Paris last Friday night watching the wonderful spectacle of the Saints of France, surrounded by 80,000 young people. The spectacle presented the great figures of the Church in France down through the centuries, the most dramatic moment being the entrance of Joan of Arc…
Readers of this newspaper will be familiar with the preparations for a National Pre-Synodal Assembly to be held in Kilkenny on Saturday, October 18. They will have perhaps perused some of the content of the preparatory document, ‘Baptised and Sent’, carried in this newspaper, and also the encouraging and helpful critique by Fr Gerry O’Hanlon…
Diocese of Meath recently hosted four training sessions across the diocese to introduce members of Parish Pastoral Councils (PPCs) to the practice of ‘Conversation in the Spirit’ — a core methodology of the Church’s synodal journey. Organised by the Diocesan Synodal Team and facilitated by trained leaders who completed the Irish Synodal Pathway’s Facilitative Leadership…