Pope Francis to visit Indigenous peoples in Canada in July Pope Francis has said that he will travel to Canada in the summer, possibly for the feast of St Anne on July 26. He made the announcement during a meeting with Canadian Indigenous leaders at the Vatican on April 1. “You have brought the living…
At the 15th annual John Paul II awards ceremony in Derry, Fr Peter McVerry commended the recipients of the awards for reaching out to their parishes and communities. In reaching out, Fr McVerry said, “they were meeting Jesus in those they encountered”. Fr McVerry was the guest speaker at the ceremony, and along with Bishop…
Becoming a Pastoral Parish Council: How to Make Your PPC Really Useful for the Twenty-First Century by Patricia Carroll, foreword by Archbishop Dermot Farrell (Messenger Publications, €9.95/£8.95) This is a short book, but intentionally so, for it is very much to its purpose which is to promote and encourage the emerging parish pastoral councils, which…
Lent has almost run its course. Palm Sunday approaches and, on its heels, Holy Week. This is intended to be the highpoint of the Church’s liturgy; the recalling of those sacred events of more than two thousand years ago. We will journey with Jesus into Jerusalem on a donkey’s back, see him betrayed, we will…
As a journalist, one of the great barriers to working as effectively as one would have liked during Covid-19 was the lack of ‘in person’ opportunities to meet. Many have hailed the revolution in communications brought about by zoom and other online platforms. Others have embraced the idea of working from home with an enthusiasm…
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