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Would it be spiritually wiser to exclude children from all service as lectors, cantors, altar servers, and even ushers, musicians and members of the choir?

We are always balancing the need to speak the truth with the need to treat with respect those who have been set over us in the Church.

Holiness is priority one, but it is not the only thing needed. We still need a large dose of basic human competence guided by genuine human prudence.

There is no substitute for proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ because there is no substitute for responding to Christ’s message through a change of heart.

The most important conceptual problem with all this is that desire should never be considered to be definitive of being.

There is no escaping that Christian disunity seriously undermines the persuasiveness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Let me praise the countless priests, deacons, religious and laity who have extended a new and vibrant apostolic spirit into an over-tired world

The worst clericalism is for a priest to assume an authority he does not possess by teaching contrary to what Christ and the Church have consecrated him to teach.

I think the best thing I can do here is simply to provide an overview of Fr. Spitzer’s valuable work by reproducing the entire table of contents.

The acclaimed author Anne Enright joined nine other high achievers from a wide variety of fields who were celebrated at the 2023 Trinity College Dublin Alumni Awards.The acclaimed author Anne Enright (pictured below with Provost Dr Linda Doyle)) join