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“Do you know them to be worthy?”
“I regret voting yes”: Thirty years on, a former priest formator reflects on how doubtful candidates were passed and what the church might learn.
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Faith we can touch
The incarnation means the physical world is where God comes to meet us. It isn’t something we have to escape.
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Ireland’s National Assembly: A numbers person’s view
Half of Ireland’s baptised Catholics rarely attend church, and none of them had a delegate at the National Assembly. Who is Ireland’s Church listening to?
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St Gerard’s visit and the awkward questions
St Gerard’s arrival locally prompts reflection on survivor justice, false accusations and the ethics of touring a saint’s remains.
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“The Challenge of Peace” modelled synodality before its time
In 1983, Cardinal Bernardin led the US bishops through public drafts and wide listening. That openness remains unusual more than forty years later.
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Twenty-five years of freedom, a lifetime of memory
Lost parents, missing neighbours and survivors of torture shape a young nation whose people radiate peace and a glimpse of reconciliation between two nations bound by painful history.
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The emerging paradigm of Catholic spirituality and theology
Christianity has always been diverse. Modern research, psychology and philosophy now ask theology to stand on firmer, evidence-based ground.
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The rise and rise of Conversations in the Spirit
Who attends, who sets the agenda, who writes the report and who acts on it. These questions test whether co-responsibility exists.
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The bishop isn’t the hall’s most important person
The Church pours energy into leadership. Its future may rest with quieter people whose influence is real but hard to measure.
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Baptised before you could blink
The near-universal practice of infant baptism gets a hard second look from someone who lived it, then questioned it.
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