WMOF 2018   A new series of digital animations have been launched as part of ongoing preparations for the World Meeting of Families and the visit of Pope Francis. The new resource focuses on Amoris Laetitia, the document written by Pope Francis on love in the family. The Amoris Animations, the first created using Amoris…

WMOF 2018   A new six-part series A Journey Through Amoris Laetitia features a wide variety of well-known commentators, as well as families from all walks of life and from all over the world. Through the six episodes, the participants reflect on what Amoris Laetitia has to say to families as they experience the ups…

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 Carlson   The All Hallows Jubilee celebrated their pastmen with a reunion Mass, including those ordained and non-ordained from all over the world, many coming from the United States. On Thursday, July 19, pastmen came together, some for the first time since they left All Hallows, and reunited with old classmates, some celebrating anywhere from…

50 Years of Humanae Vitae   It’s easy to forget, but ‘pastoral’ hasn’t always been a simple synonym for soothing, caring, or gentle. At heart, after all, it means the way a herdsman or shepherd behaves, and in the Bible that’s not always something sweet and mild. When David offers to fight Goliath, for instance,…

50 Years of Humanae Vitae Sr Helena Burns tells Greg Daly about how St John Paul II opened up Humanae Vitae for the world   A celibate nun might seem an unlikely champion of Humanae Vitae and the ‘Theology of the Body’ taught by St John Paul II, but Sr Helena Burns is someone who believes…

Letter from Rome   Documents in the Vatican Secret Archives and the archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith prove it was a “myth” that Blessed Paul VI largely set out on his own in writing Humanae Vitae, the 1968 encyclical on married love and the regulation of births. In anticipation of the…

WMOF 2018   With the joyous Baptism of two babies, St Mary’s Parish in Dublin’s World Meeting of Families (WMOF) preparation kicked off with a flourish. Beginning with a children’s Mass in the early afternoon, parishioners enjoyed food and sunshine on the grounds of the parish centre in Lucan on June 24. St James’ Brass…

Members of the travelling community from Cork braved scorching temperatures to climb Croagh Patrick with family being the main focus of their pilgrimage. In preparation for the World Meeting of Families (WMOF) in August, the Cloyne Diocese Chaplaincy to the Traveller Community led the pilgrimage on Wednesday July 4 with men from the North Cork…

WMOF 2018 Jade 
McMahon
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 Ciara 
Hunt   Preparations for our youth pilgrimage began many months ago when we attended meetings in the pastoral centre in Corbally, Limerick. We were trained and the role we were about to undertake as youth pilgrims was explained to us. We met our 10 dedicated leaders who were full of life, fun and…