Organisers of a letter from over 500 young Catholics challenging the synod on a perceived desire among young people for liberal reform have been invited to a meeting with the synodal steering committee, The Irish Catholic newspaper understands. The letter, which went viral online after being picked up by Catholic news agencies internationally, was due…
It is not at all clear where this whole synodal process is going to end up, writes David Quinn The Vatican has just issued a new synodal working document that is now to be studied at a continental level by the Church in the coming months. This new document is a synthesis of the papers…
Staff Reporter Around the world, listening sessions for the Synod of Bishops gave many participants a sense of finally being listened to, but they also raised questions about how to promote greater inclusion in the Church while staying true to eternal Church teaching. Two of the issues raised most often in reports sent to the…
Sisters of Mercy celebrate final profession Sisters of Mercy, family, friends and colleagues gathered on Sunday October 9 in Mercy International Centre, Baggot Street, Dublin, to celebrate the Perpetual Profession ceremony of Sr Máire Hearty RSM. Sr Brenda Dolphin, Provincial Leader of the South Central Province, thanked everyone who had journeyed alongside Sr Hearty to…
Confusion reigns over whether a letter by more than 500 young Catholics challenging a perceived desire among young people for liberal reform was in fact discussed at the recent meeting of the hierarchy as planned. This newspaper previously reported that the organisers of the letter were assured by the bishops’ conference that the letter was…
Editor’s Comment One of the great sadnesses shared with me when I speak at parish missions and novenas around the country is the absence of young families. Often a grandfather and grandmother will be there with cheerful grandchildren, and at the cup of tea afterwards will share their dismay that their grown-up children – the…
The unprecedented consultation process reveals that many self-styled liberals are intolerant of those who differ from them, writes Fr Andrew McMahon Former TV3 presenter, Ursula Halligan, returned briefly to our screens this summer, in the surprising circumstances of the national pre-synodal assembly. The past political editor, and prominent campaigner for same-sex marriage, featured in RTÉs…
Women religious in Ireland have lamented their “constant battering” by the media in a submission to the Irish synodal process. Media reporting is “happy to use women religious as scapegoats for Irish Church and society”, the Irish women religious say in their submission. “When we feel that it’s ending it comes back again and again…
For almost 60 years a British journalist, Alistair Cooke had a weekly show on BBC Radio 4 called Letter from America looking at various topics from an American perspective. I feel a little like that this month as I’m writing this piece while sitting in a café just across the street from the White House.…
Ireland’s national synodal synthesis, sent to Rome in August, is “very revealing and very disturbing”, the bishop of Waterford and Lismore has said. Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan warned that a number of things challenging Church teaching emerged from the “rushed” synodal process. He added, however, that the synthesis is helpful as it shows the “serious fault-lines…
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