“Acts of intimidation.”
A church that speaks out on Christian doctrine only when that doctrine happens to coincidentally serve the political needs of the state is, in this writer’s estimation, barely worthy of the name.
If a funeral mass is just a do-it-yourself liturgy that can be embellished with singing and dancing and celebrity spotting, then what significance does it have, by itself, at all?
His surviving verses date from the period 565 and 604, and are among the earliest examples of Irish writing in the Latin alphabet.
The Church was anathema to local loyalists and had been attacked in earlier assaults on the Short Strand in the 1920s.
Here are four things to consider:
His surviving verses date from the period 565 and 604, and are among the earliest examples of Irish writing in the Latin alphabet.
The idea that God can forgive the Holy Ghost Fathers, but will hold a gay person to account for their sins, just isn’t going to fly. People won’t believe in that God. And they don’t.
“The devil enters” through internet pornography.
Many Catholics will have seen the video, recently posted to twitter, of Fr. Brendan Hoban bemoaning the growth of traditional Catholic zeal among young seminarians and those recently ordained to the priesthood. 'They are traditional, they wear black, soutanes, they want to talk about sin, they want the Latin Mass! I despair of young priests' […]
If it is the fate of the Irish Church to die, then it will die. But it should die with its head held high for the things it believes to be eternally true. Not crawling on its belly before the whims of the moment.
Sometimes historical anniversaries throw up interesting items. Examples of irony perhaps, or maybe indications as to how much things have altered over the course of time. On Friday evening, Sinn Féin was the main political party which took part in what was effectively a picket of a Catholic Church in Ballyfermot. They and others may […]