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
28 April 2025 – Monday of Week 2 of Easter
28 April 2025 – Monday of Week 2 of Easter Optional Memorials: St Peter Chanel, priest and martyr; St Louis Maria Grignion de Montfort, priest. 1st Reading: Acts 4:23-31 The first Christian community prays for help to survive the threatened persecution After they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief...
Read MoreSeán Ó Conaill: The Pyramid Will Stay Inverted
This article was first published on the Association of Catholics in Ireland website: https://acireland.ie/the-pyramid-will-stay-inverted/ Pope Francis’ enemies in the church will be ‘talked up’ by media as possibly capable of…
Jim Cogley: Reflections Tues 29th April – Mon 4th May 2025
Coming Events Three Wood You Believe evening seminars entitled Getting the Past out of the Present involving Personal and Ancestral Healing are scheduled to be held in the Edmund Rice…
Soline Humbert: Who will roll away the stone of Patriarchy from our Church tomb?
Popes come and go, Christ remains; and with Christ the community of disciples we call church. It has been like that for two millennia. Today Pope Francis is being buried,…
Chris McDonnell: The empty chair
The doors are sealed The ring is broken The chair is empty Francis has been called to his place After his burial in simple style The conclave will gather To…
Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP leadership team – weekly Sunday homily
The video homily for this weekend – 2nd weekend Easter – Year C 2025. The title is ‘Fertile Doubt’:
Root & Branch: Honouring Stolen Lives
Please join our Liturgy for our Day of Prayer for Survivors and Victims of Abuse Each year the Catholic Church asks us to hold a Day of Prayer for Survivors and Victims…
Pope Francis reflecting from hospital: (not written by Pope Francis)
“The walls of hospitals have heard more honest prayers than churches…They have witnessed far more sincere kisses than those in airports…It is in hospitals that you see a homophobe being…
Tony Flannery in The Irish Examiner: Francis was a counterweight to those who venerate power
Link to article: https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41618119.html Though not a great surprise, due to his recent serious illness, the announcement of the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday morning is a matter…
Brendan Hoban: Rulebooks tend not to serve priests very well
Western People 15th April 2025 Recently, Bishop Donal Roche, auxiliary Bishop of Dublin, said he was worried that the sacredness of the liturgy is being eroded by, for example, people…