My current home in Victoria BC is at 740 View St, at the heart of downtown, just a half mile from the picturesque Inner Harbour (Google it!), dominated by the BC government building. I live in the rectory, a three-storey complex of apartments and offices, attached to St Andrew’s Cathedral. Rectory This rectory was re-fitted…
When he was elected Bishop of Rome on October 16, 1978, Cardinal Karol Wojtyła had a rather limited experience of the Catholic Church in the United States. He had met American churchmen at the Second Vatican Council, and a few of them visited Poland in the ensuing years. The Cracovian cardinal had made two visits…
The final episode of the 2026 season of Education Nation brings listeners a rich and compelling conversation with one of the most authoritative voices in the world of Catholic education: Prof. Eamonn Conway, a priest of the Archdiocese of Tuam was appointed as the inaugural Professor of Integral Human Development at the University of Notre…
Synod asks for lived experiences without listening to the answers Dear Editor, After twenty years within the Irish Catholic Church — and the equivalent time within the German Catholic Church — I have lost hope in many ways. The further I can move away from institutional Church life, the happier I think I am. After…
It seems like a huge understatement to say that we are living in uncertain times as a Church here in Ireland. Every parish, every religious community and every diocese across the country is grappling with social and ecclesial change that is happening at a faster rate than we can process. Despite our best efforts to…
There is something very admirable about the Irish Synodal Pathway. The people involved — and this newspaper has spent considerable time examining who they are and what they do — are genuine in their commitment to the Church and to the reform they believe it needs. They are not cynics. They are not time-servers. Many…
Introducing the people in the Irish Synodal Pathway Working Groups and their roles and backgrounds. The Synodal Pathway refused to release this information for unknown reasons so we compiled it in the interest of a transparent Church culture which clearly has some way to go before it is realised. BELONGING Bishop Paul Dempsey Auxiliary Bishop…
The process for the Modification of Parishes, when the need arises, is set out below. It is guided by the Instructions of the Dicastery for the Clergy. The process takes place within the context of the partnership of parishes established by Archbishop Farrell (December 2022) across the Archdiocese through the Building Hope pastoral renewal initiative.…
What does it mean to safeguard our humanity? That question is at the heart of Pope Leo XIV’s much anticipated first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence, released May 25. The following are some key things to know about this weighty papal letter. Latin for “Magnificent Humanity,”…
We live in troubled times, and in a time where everyone has a political opinion, sometimes strongly expressed. Sometimes a strong opinion is fitting. But do politics have to be everywhere? Getting a takeaway coffee at a small local café, I noticed they’d put up a new poster with the words “Free Palestine”. The poster…
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