Many, some anxiously, await an outcome to the global Synod in Rome whose first session was held last October with the concluding session in October next year. So, there is almost a year to go. At ...

It was, as David Ryan put it, “the final ending”. Back on dry land in Dún Laoghaire, he was “relieved”. A short time earlier he had dropped his brother Mark’s ashes into the sea at nearby Scotsman’s ...