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
19 Mar 2024 – Saint Joseph, Husband of the Blessed Virgin
19 Mar 2024 – Saint Joseph, Husband of the Blessed Virgin 1st Reading: 2 Samuel 7:4-6, 12-14, 16 From king David’s offspring will come the universal spiritual King But that same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan: Go and tell my servant David: Thus says the Lord: Are you the one...
Read MoreJim Cogley: Reflections Tues 19 March – Mon 25 March
Note: Since the Family Tree Seminar in Our Lady’s Island for Sat March 23rd was fully booked in a few days another has been scheduled for Fri 17th May. For…
NCR Online: Congregations seek ways to turn empty convents into new ministries
BY DAN STOCKMAN, March 18, 2024 Editor’s note: “Evolving Religious Life,” a new series from Global Sisters Report, is exploring how Catholic sisters are adapting to the realities of congregations…
Lá Fhéile Pádraig – Happy St Patrick’s Day
St Patrick, Octagon Monument, Westport, Mayo The Monument: A change on the skyline St. Patrick’s Day, 17th March 1990 was not merely the day to honour our Patron Saint, it…
Seán Walsh: Lance Ascending
LANCE ASCENDING… Larry, eh… Lance was a pet name. Ah, if ever there was a hard man! Many’s the session we had in the old days – Oh, what! ‘Gave it a…
Tony Flannery: Talk in the Clayton Hotel, Galway, on Wednesday March 27th at 7.30pm
Can religious belief as we have known it survive in modern Ireland? As many will know, I have been silenced by the Catholic Church but that isn’t to say, I…
Chris McDonnell: A Change of Season
A change of season The chill, dark soil of winter eases the season change over the folded hills of March. Damp, stained shoes from a walk through frost-flaked grass till,…
Studies – Spring 2024 issue
PRESS RELEASE13 MARCH 2024 On the scale of things, in today’s violent and volatile world, one could justifiably wonder whether access to the arts and the freedom to participate in…
Ireland Joins the World – and Leaves the Church
From Commonweal magazine: Fintan O’Toole on the cost of prosperity Paul Baumann, March 12, 2024, Commonweal Fintan O’Toole is a terrific writer, and his We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History…
America Magazine: LGBT Catholics and ‘disordered’ language: A biblical model for change
James F. Keenan March 12, 2024 America Last month in Outreach, a L.G.B.T.Q. Catholic resource sponsored by America Media, I was invited to consider what we as a church might do…
Séamus Ahearne: LITTLE THOUGHTS PEEPING OUT OF LONG SENTENCES.
THE REFERENDUM: Politicians are astute. They test the wind. They read the signs. They tune in to the lurking messages of the electorate. They have their surgeries. They have the…