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Today’s Homily Resources
09 May 2025 – Friday of Week 3 of Easter
09 May 2025 – Friday of Week 3 of Easter 1st Reading: Acts 9:1-20 On the road to Damascus, Saul converts to the Way Meanwhile Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if...
Read MoreSéamus Ahearne, osa – Robert Prevost, osa – Pope Leo
The phone rang. The White Smoke had appeared. I turned on the TV. My immediate assumption was that one of the more prominent characters would now be named as Pope….
Habemus Papam – Pope Leo XIV
Behold the man… PREVOST Card. Robert Francis, O.S.A. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, O.S.A., Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, Archbishop-Bishop emeritus of Chiclayo, was born on 14 September 1955 in Chicago…
White Smoke…
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Gerry O’Connor, CSsR and ACP Leadership, Weekly Sunday Homily
4th Sunday of Easter (C) 2025. Theme is Shepherds & Soot.
The Journal – Fr Tony Flannery: We will know fairly quickly if this new pope is a reformer or not
The Redemptorist priest says many popes before Francis were not reformers, and it won’t be long before we see what way a new pope is going to go. THESE DAYS,…
Brendan Hoban: Church needs a pope for a changing world
Western People 6.5.2025 Tomorrow, May 7, 2025, of the 252 members of the College of Cardinals, 135 who are under 80 and therefore qualify to vote, will enter the Sistine…
America Magazine: ‘Adopt a Cardinal’ helps Catholics pray for the electors inside the conclave
Jim McDermott May 06, 2025 (RNS) — Before the last conclave, Ulrike Heckl found herself looking at photos of the cardinals who were preparing to elect the next pope and…
Presider’s Page for 11 May (Fourth Sunday of Easter)
On the fourth Sunday of Easter each year, we honour the Risen Lord as our Good Shepherd. We pray for vocations to priesthood and Religious life: we pray that God…
ROOT & BRANCH: PAPABILE WOMEN
hello@rootandbranchsynod.org www.rootandbranchsynod.org No. 151 06/05/2025 “The Church is like a bird with a…
Séamus Ahearne: ALCATRAZ AND THE CONCLAVE
ALCATRAZ: ‘Escape from Alcatraz ‘(1979) with Clint Eastwood, impressed many, and was a successful film. Seemingly, it aired recently on a South Florida PBS Station. Within hours, the Donald had…