Churches in Ireland will join Christians throughout the world in celebrating Creation Time from 1st September until the Feast of St Francis on 4th October 2018.
The archbishop Dr Nathan Söderblom, an ecumenical forerunner and messenger of peace in war-torn Europe, challenged a deeply divided Christianity 100 years ago. Against all odds, the Stockholm Conference on Life and Work in 1925 gathered church leaders at a scale the world had not seen since Nicaea 1600 years earlier. And it did not end there, Tore Samuelsson, writes
A New Zealand cardinal told a conference in Thurles on the future of parishes in Ireland that his diocese benefited from the appointment of church workers known as lay pastoral leaders who exercise many functions that normally would be the responsibility of a parish priest, Sarah MacDonald writes in Crux
Thomas Baldwin reports on the 70th anniversary of the World Council of Churches – and the work still to be done.
Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war who embraced patriotism loudly and religion quietly, died Saturday (Aug. 25) at the age of 81.
Make no mistake, the arrival of Pope Francis today and his whirlwind visitation will be an outstanding success, Ivan Yates writes in the Irish Independent
Pat Ashworth writes in The Church Times