Scotland’s synodal journey

Eyre Hall, Archdiocesan Offices, 196 Clyde St, Glasgow G1 4JY

Saturday 8 June

10am – 4.30pm

Speakers: Dr Mary Cullen will consider the way history has shaped the Scottish Catholic Church. Rev Dr Tom Magill will give an overview of on Scotland’s synodal journey. Dr Gemma Simmonds CJ will reflect on discernment, the heart of the synodal process. Professor Werner Jeanrond will respond to the day’s contributions and discussions, and place them within the wider European context.

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‘Torn in two’: an ecumenical resource

Churches Together in Britain and Ireland have produced an ecumenical resource for reflection on responding to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

‘Torn in two’ takes its title from Donald Nicholl, the former Rector of the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem, who said:

‘If your immediate spontaneous reaction – if the movement of your heart – upon hearing of some tragedy is an ideological one rather than a human one, then your heart has been corrupted, and you should leave straight away and go on pilgrimage until it is cleansed’.

The task of the Christian, he said, is not to be neutral – but to be torn in two’.

This is the starting point for a 4 page resource which is offered as an aid to reflection in the face of brutality, conflict and violence. Christians external to the situation are challenged to balance domestic interfaith relations with the need to speak out against violence and to stand in solidarity with Palestinian churches who look to the world church to speak unequivocally of the urgency for Palestinian self-determination, while always recognising the right of Israel with secure border