Archive | Bishop William

Feast of Christ the King 20th November 2022 St. Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh “Christ King of our Hearts”   Prayer of St. Ignatius of Loyola Take, Lord and receive all my […]

Safeguarding Report Diocese of Cloyne – November 2022 For letter from Bishop William Crean and to access the report, please click on the links below.   Safeguarding Message November 2022 […]

30th Sunday C 23rd October 2022 St. Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh “Fighting the good fight”    ​​​     My friends, The experience of Covid brought lots of new words into […]

A Cháirde, There is to-day a new awareness of the importance of architecture and landscape on our lives. It is only a generation or more since planning permission became necessary […]

28th Sunday C 9th October 2022 Sacred Heart Church, Rushbrooke “Gratitude and Appreciation” My friends, On December 10th 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was promulgated. Prompted by the […]

Monastic Profession of Sr. Maria Gratia of the Holy Spirit St. Benedict’s Priory, Cobh 8th October 2022 My friends, A call to a contemplative vocation confounds this generation. Especially those […]

25th Sunday C 18th September 2022 St. Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh “No servant can be the slave of two masters”    ​​​     My friends, Apparently, the price of an […]

24th Sunday C 11th September 2022 St. Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh “They have been quick to leave the way I marked out for them”    ​​​     My friends, The […]

  CLOYNE DIOCESAN CHANGES SEPTEMBER 2022   Most Rev. William Crean has accepted the resignation from office, on the grounds of retirement, of the following priest in the Diocese of […]

  21st Sunday C 21st August 2022 St. Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh “Seek to enter by the narrow door”    ​​​     My friends, Speaking recently to a man whose […]