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Welcome
Fáilte, Welcome
to the website for the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne, Ireland
Bishop William Crean
To Communicate Hope
To Communicate Hope
This is the eleventh and last conference of this week’s Lenten Retreat. Italian text below.
On 11 October 1962 Pope Saint John XXIII solemnly opened the Second Vatican Council. The Council’s ‘greatest concern’, he said, would be ‘that the sacred deposit of Read More
On Consideration
On Consideration
From the tenth conference of this week’s Lenten Retreat. Italian text below.
St Bernard wrote a treatise On Consideration. It enjoyed the widest circulation of any of his works. This may seem odd, for the text is in essence a letter addressed Read More
Bernard the Realist
Bernard the Realist
From the ninth conference of this week’s Lenten Retreat. Italian text below.
The identity of the Cistercian movement is forged in the interface between the ideal and the concrete, the poetic and the pragmatic. Its protagonists are tested and purified by tensions Read More
God’s Angels
God’s Angels
From the eighth conference of this week’s Lenten Retreat. Italian text below.
During Christ’s forty-day sojourn in the desert Satan came to him citing Psalm 90, specifically two verses about the angels. ‘The devil’, we read in St Matthew, ‘took him to Read More
Glory
Glory
From the seventh conference of this week’s Lenten Retreat. Italian text below.
When Jesus spelled out what it means to remain with him, to enter the Kingdom towards which he was pointing, ‘many of his disciples drew back and no longer went Read More