Renewal will not come by ditching core beliefs, writes David Quinn
Learning the real value of life
Volunteering with Burmese refugee children
Remembering Fr Martin Clarke
He made much of the time he was given Brenda Drumm I met Fr Martin Clarke for the first time at my interview for the job of Communications Officer with the Catholic Communications Office (CCO) back in the summer of 2000. I was nervous about the interview panel but he immediately put me at ease.…
Priests felt ‘tarred with same brush’ by abuse report
ACP review challenges assertion Dublin priests turned ‘blind eye’ to abuse
Commission ‘fell short of natural justice’
The executive summary of the ACP review of the Murphy Report
Chocolate hedgehog in a garden cake
A perfect treat for an Autumn evening
Cork conference discusses Pope John Paul II
UCC to host a major conference on Pope JPII
Allen parish celebrates PP’s retirement
Fr Eddie Moore retires after 50th anniversary
Adrift on a sea of terror
Aubrey Malone enjoys a tense sea-bound thriller
The academy and the pew – a strained relationship
There has always been an innate and healthy tension between theology and catechesis, between what’s happening in theology departments in universities and the church pew. Theologians and bishops are often not each other’s favourite people. And that’s understandable. Why? Theology and catechesis have different purposes, even as both are valid and both are needed. Catechesis,…