Your Church, Your Thoughts – We need to make faith relevant

Speaking to young delegates participating at the National Pre-Synod Assembly in Athlone, The Synodal Times asked those involved in Diocesan grassroots movements what their views on the Church at present are. Here we speak to the Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministry for the Diocese of Kilmore, Francis Keaney. Commenting on the days’ events, […]

Picturing God as our mother

July 3, 2022, the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Reflecting on God’s love and care as that of a mother for her children can help us to draw new insights, nuances and meanings in our personal relationship with God.

After Dobbs, SoCal pro-lifers prepare to ‘help in any way we can’

For years, it seemed like Jim Hanink and other local Catholic pro-life advocates were rebels for a cause going nowhere. Since the 1970s, they’ve spent hours reaching out to pregnant women, inviting them to reconsider the decision to abort. They’ve handed out flyers, wrangled with elected officials, and rallied the faithful in local parishes to […]