ROSCOMMON: A gathering of parish pastoral councils in Achonry diocese took place on June 10 as the diocese enters into a moment of “discernment and dialogue” about the future. Our culture ‘despises the body’ – bishop Our modern culture claims to emphasise body over spirit, but it actually “despises the body”, Bishop Donal McKeown has said. While “modern ideology” says bodies are “just a thing to have fun with, to be altered as my fancy takes me”, the Church teaches that the body is…
