Toward a More Catholic Church

An interview with Tomáš Halík

Zechariah Mickel

January 10, 2025

Tomáš Halík preaches at St. Salvator Church in Prague, Czech Republic, October 2023 (Roman Vondrous/CTK Photo/Alamy Live News).

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Msgr. Tomáš Halík is a Czech priest and professor of sociology at Charles University. Born in Prague in 1948, Halík earned his doctorate in philosophy in 1972.

The ACP critical of the way Nuns are being portrayed

8 January 2025

For the past two centuries nuns (sisters) educated people in their schools, and cared for people in hospitals, at a time when the state was either unwilling or unable to provide such services. 

Yes, they operated industrial schools, orphanages and mother and baby homes and the values under which such institutions operated clearly failed in many circumstances to reflect those of the Gospel. It

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It’s not news anymore that religion, particularly the Catholic religion, is now either no news or bad news. That’s obvious in both the general and the particular. 

An example of the first is that, since the recent retirement of Patsy McGarry from the Irish Times no Irish paper any longer carries a designated religious affairs correspondent. 

An example of the second is that one of the most popular programmes on RTÉ Radio, Liveline, today seems only interested in religion when it affords an opportunity to disparage and disembowel with apparent relish all things Catholic.