Dear All The Galloway Diocesan Newsletter recently asked for contributions to the edition it is preparing for Advent, so I decided to send in an article on our recent Parish Festival along with some photos! I am reproducing it all here just in case the Newsletter decides it doesn’t have...
Holiness is not the leisurely pursuit of the chosen few. It is the final goal, the end-game, of the human adventure, of every human life. It is a universal, a Catholic, call and destiny. If the Beatific Vision is the destiny for which we strive; and if the content of...
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There have been 10 million abortions in the UK since 1967 and 43 million abortions in the US from Roe-Wade (1973) to 2021. WHO says that around 73 million induced abortions take place worldwide each year. WHO calls abortion a “common health intervention.” It says that six out of ten...
The Pharisee in today’s parable is wrapped up in himself. Jesus even portrays him as saying his prayer to himself. He was so grand in his own eyes that God couldn’t get a look in. He had become his own god. It’s so easy to make religion, and even...
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The Amalekites would have defeated Israel if Moses had not kept on praying and if those with him had not kept supporting him. Our real enemies are not flesh and blood, St. Paul tells us, but the spiritual forces of evil. We experience their power and onslaught every day. Jesus...
This webinar will be led by Peter Kearney and Anthony Horan to update clergy and laity on the work of the Scottish Catholic Media Office and Scottish Catholic Parliamentary Office, including: talking through some of the most important issues of the moment such as assisted suicide and the cost-of-living crisis;...
On Tuesday 4th October we reach the end of the Season of Creation, so this is the fifth and last Sunday in that season. Science tells us that the human body is made up of elements which all come from the stars. Every element in our DNA is to be...
