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
22 June 2026 – Monday of Week 12
22 June 2026 – Monday of Week 12 Optional Memorials: St Paulinus of Nola, bishop, 355-431; St John Fisher, bishop, 1469-1535, as Vice-Chancellor, built Christ and St John’s Colleges , Cambridge, was Bishop of Rochester. His love of truth brought about his death. St Thomas More, 1478-1535, the first commoner to be Lord Chancellor of England, suffered martyrdom also under...
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Suicide among priests needs to be ‘urgently addressed’, says senior Catholic priest
Clergy are people too and often struggle in silence, afraid that opening up may be judged as a lack of faith Sarah MacDonald, writing in the Irish Independent Link to…
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Presider’s Page for 28 June 2026 (13th Sunday in Ordinary Time)
We’re told in today’s readings that hospitality is a gift that brings a great reward. As we gather to thank God for the many gifts we’ve received, we ask for…
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Jim Cogley’s Reflections: Tues 23 June – Mon 29 June 2026
Tues June 23rd – A Question to Mother Teresa Some years ago, the well-known priest and author Henri Nouwen who died quite young had the opportunity of meeting Mother Teresa….
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The Teilhard Project
Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/TheTeilhardProject Our final Rome screening of Teilhard: Visionary Scientist was at the Gregorian University on April 22. “The Greg,” as students there call it, is the premiere theological…
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Brendan Hoban: Voters are risk averse in general elections
Western People 9.6.2026 Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. I know! But even that pearl of wisdom forever glistening in the background of this column is insufficient to…
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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…