A Voice to Reflect
The ACP is an association for Catholic Priests who wish to have a forum, and a voice to reflect on, discuss and comment on issues affecting the Irish Church and society today. We welcome any feedback you may have. If you are an existing member, you can pay your membership fee here. If you would like to support the ACP with a donation, you can do so here.
Today’s Homily Resources
18 June 2026 – Thursday of Week 11
18 June 2026 – Thursday of Week 11 1st Reading: Sirach 48:1-14 Elijah arose, a prophet like fire, and his word burned like a torch. He brought a famine upon them, and by his zeal he made them few in number. By the word of the Lord he shut up the heavens, and also three...
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Tony Flannery writing in Flashes of Insight: Insufficient Courage
June 16, 2026 Link to article Flashes Tony Flannery I was born into a rural, small-farming household in the West of Ireland just after the Second World War. From a…
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Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP leadership Team – weekly Sunday video homily
‘Friendship’ 12th Sunday Year A – 21 June 2026
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Root & Branch Zoom: Where OUR Church is Going – Fr. Derek Reeve, Fri 19 June 20.00-21.30
REMINDER!Where OUR Church is Going Fr. Derek ReeveFriday 19th June, 20.00 – 21.30 London time On 2nd June, 2012, Fr Derek Reeve, along with six other priests, wrote a letter to…
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Does ‘Humanness’ Evolve’?
Seán O’Conaill questions Ilia Delio’s evolutionary critique of Pope Leo’s ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ “The most revealing word in Magnifica Humanitas is a verb: remain. ‘Our duty in the age of AI,’ Leo writes, ‘is…
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July edition of The Messenger now available
PRESS RELEASE FROM MESSENGER PUBLICATIONS 17 June 2026 Finding a good life balance is a theme that crops up in several articles in the July Messenger. Gerard Condon writes about the…
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Vatican News: Protection of Minors Commission receives new Statutes, renewed mandate
Pope Leo XIV approves new Statutes for the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, reinforcing the Church’s commitment to safeguarding minors and vulnerable persons. Vatican News – link to…
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Séamus Aherne: Weekly musings on life … and life only!
THE WONDER OF WORDS AND IN PRAISE OF A WORDSMITH: Eddie Finnegan came to mind these days out here in the Algarve. Last year, I was determined to discover what…
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Presider’s Page for 21 June 2026 (12th Sunday in Ordinary Time)
We have nothing to be afraid of, we’re told in today’s Gospel. God knows every one of our needs. We gather in prayer, united by our faith, to thank God…
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Paddy Ferry: The Edinburgh Newman Association – update
The Newman Association (Promoting open debate and greater understanding in today’s Church). The next meeting of our Edinburgh Newman Association is on Wednesday evening, 24th June 2026 at 7.40– 9.00pm and at our…
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Jim Cogley’s Reflections: Tues 16 June – Mon 22 June 2026
Coming events: Wood You Believe – Seminar Healing of Childhood Trauma and Abuse Born out of immense suffering in the Christian Brothers Order and arising from revelations of Sexual Abuse…