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Homilies offered by Bishop William Crean
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Developing faith and ministry in the Diocese of Cloyne
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Bishop William Crean
Pietas ‘For if the dark places of the earth have always been full of the habitations of cruelty, there has always been a spring of mercy in mankind. The Roman virtue of pietas is the strong root from which our pity, Read More
Desert Fathers 7
Desert Fathers 7
Below is the text of the seventh episode in the series Desert Fathers in a Year. You can find it in video format here – a dedicated page – and pick it up in audio wherever you listen to podcasts.
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5. Sunday C
5. Sunday C
Isaiah 6.1-8: Woe is me! I am lost!
1 Corinthians 15.1-11: Last of all, he appeared also to me. 
Luke 5.1-11: Put out into the deep.
Christ’s words to Peter, ‘Put out into the deep!’, touches something deep in us. We all long Read More
Stone Ready Lucas Cranach’s Christ and the Adulteress is a formal representation of the scene from John 8 with the various participants tidily lined up as for a graduation photograph. The structural formality belies an extraordinarily rich range of character studies. I am struck Read More
Conversation with Alessandro Sortino
Conversation with Alessandro Sortino
Don Luigi Giussani, a priest of Milan, was one of the twentieth century’s great teachers and preachers of the Catholic faith, ever clear in his allegiance to the Church, ever committed to making her doctrine comprehensible, applying it with originality Read More