So on this weeks podcast excerpt John and Shane take a look back at the events church-related in 2024. We have been trying to do this annual review for the last few years so hopefully it works (LOL) and we then see what the pundits have predicted for 2025 as areas to watch and things to unfold.

Things looked at during 2024:

• Reopening of Notre Dame in Paris
• December Consistory in Rome
• Preparations for the Jubilee 
• Joint Lectionary project – Ireland/Oz/NZ
• Changes to the papal funerals
• Announcement of canonisation of Carlo Acutis
• Synod on Synodality and the Pope's confirmation of the final document
• Visit of St Bernadette’s Relics to Ireland
• New encyclical on the 350th anniversary of Sacred Heart visions
• Death of + Donal Murray, bishop emeritus of Limerick
• Bishops of Ireland published a new pastoral letter on welcoming immigrants, entitled: A Hundred Thousand Welcomes?
• Various papal trips in 2024thodox Church in union with Moscow
• Papal letter on role of literature in formation
• US Eucharistic Revival and Congress in Indianapolis
• New norms published by DDF on Marian apparitions
• New church document on human dignity - Dignitas Infinita: a document that says abortion, sex change and surrogacy are grave violations of human dignity.
• Announcement of the closure of Veritas Books by the Irish Bishops conference.

Credit for information to:

• Vatican News
• Rome Reports
• The Pillar
• Crux
• Catholic News Agency
• National Catholic Reporter
• National Catholic Register
• The Irish Catholic
• Irishcatholicnews.ie 

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