Neil Darragh offers suggestions for how we can engage individually and as a church community this Lent. How should we approach the season of Lent in 2025? Is it the same as before or could it be different?

Neil Darragh discusses the Preparatory Document for the second session of the Synod on Synodality to be held in October.

In Part Three of this series, Neil Darragh discusses how we can learn new leadership for the church from contemporary leadership models.

In this second of a three-part series Neil Darragh discusses traditional resources for leadership in a synodal church.

In this first of a three-part series, Neil Darragh discusses the synodal way as a church willing to learn and engage in the process of transformation.

Neil Darragh discusses Laudate Deum, Pope Francis’s Exhortation on the climate crisis which he published on the feast of St Francis of Assisi, 4 October.

Neil Darragh discusses guilt and sin in developing an Earth consciousness in our spirituality.

Neil Darragh discusses the transformation of the Church in our time to be a more life-affirming community.

Neil Darragh asks if our models of Church are fit for mission.

Neil Darragh discusses how Christian communities need to shift from a focus on themselves to seeing service in the realm of God as their primary focus.

Neil Darragh describes how our understanding of Scripture can deepen our love of Earth.

Neil Darragh writes that Eucharist is inescapably linked to how we produce, distribute, consume and waste food.

Neil Darragh describes journeying as a reality and a symbol of a pilgrim people — a synodal way of Church.

Neil Darragh discusses the invitation to the Church to engage in synodality for the reform of the Church for the world.

Neil Darragh discusses how the season of Creation adds balance to Christian spirituality.

by Diarmuid O’Murchu. Published by Orbis Books, 2021. Reviewed by Neil Darragh

Neil Darragh introduces Pope Francis’s new encyclical Fratelli Tutti which encourages all people in the world to relate like sisters and brothers.

Neil Darragh suggests that in our post-pandemic recovery we could become an outward looking, mission focused Church.

Neil Darragh reflects on what Micah’s phrase means for us as a pilgrim people.

Neil Darragh discusses the need to develop our conscience in order to make informed personal and collective moral decisions.

by Charles E Curran. Published by Georgetown University Press, 2018. Reviewed by Neil Darragh

Neil Darragh offers a new understanding of the role of the leader and the ministers in the liturgy of Eucharist.

Neil Darragh describes why sharing the leadership in Sunday Eucharist is a model for today's communities.

Neil Darragh discusses why our images of God need to change as we grow in awareness of our relationships and responsibilities in Earth.

Neil Darragh discusses how a mission focus in our local Church community develops belonging and takes the gospel into our society.

Neil Darragh describes how Christian beliefs such as participation, collaboration, justice and transparency will help us change the clerical culture of the Church.

Neil Darragh writes that Lent is a stocktaking time when we live gratefully allowing change to emerge personally, socially, in the church community and in our environment.

Neil Darragh discusses why Christians should be in the forefront of climate action.

We asked Neil Darragh to respond to Pope Francis’s new exhortation to all Christians, Gaudete et Exsultate, on the call to holiness in today’s world.

NEIL DARRAGH explains subsidiarity as a principle of social justice and describes how it works together with other principles in making a just society.

Edited by Graham Buxton and Norman Habel. Published by Pickwick Publications, 2016. Reviewed by Neil Darragh

NEIL DARRAGH explains why care for Earth is an essential part of Catholic Social Teaching and is at the centre of a larger vision of integral ecology. 

"A decline in the quality of human life and a decline in the quality of the natural world go together. 'A sense of deep communion with the rest of nature cannot be real if our hearts lack tenderness, compassion and concern for our fellow human beings' (LS par 91)."

Neil Darragh notes that while to bury the dead is a traditional work of mercy it nevertheless benefits those burying as well as the dead. 

By Jane Kelsey.  Published by Bridget Williams Books with the New Zealand Law Foundation, 2015.  Reviewed by Neil Darragh.

Francis of Assisi’s Canticle of Creation has been an inspiration for Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si', urging all people to take stock and change the way we live in this world. Neil Darragh gives an overview of this letter indicating the concerns, the care, the change and the integrated approaches the Pope hopes for.