Month: October 2020

Signed copies of Tony Flannery’s new book ‘From the Outside’ available. Forward cheque for €15, payable to ACP, to Liamy Mac Nally, Sheeaune, Westport, Mayo.    This is the audio…

The Revolution of Mercy and a New Ecumenism Tomas Halík Msgr. Tomáš Halík ThD (1948) is a professor of philosophy and sociology of religion at Charles University in Prague and…

Fr. Tony Flannery From the Outside: Rethinking Church Doctrine  Followed by Q & A 7.30 – 9.00pm Monday 2nd of November 2020 Online ZOOM event   Fr Tony Flannery Tony…

Message of thanks from the ACP Leadership: As we celebrate ten years of the Association of Catholic Priests, we are aware that among the services we have been able to…

My Story by Jesus of Nazareth As narrated by Brendan Butler Former President of Ireland, Dr. Mary McAleese and leading church historian and religion writer, John Cooney, have come together…

This is the link for the ACP AGM Wed Oct 28th via Zoom, agenda listed below. The welcome and introductory remarks are not included. Please note, a candle was lit…

A Get-out-of-Jail opportunity: The Psychiatrist: A new biography of Anthony Clare (d. 2007) has appeared. Psychiatrist in the Chair by Brendan Kelly and Muiris Houston. Anthony Clare was rather famous…

Ahead of today’s AGM…a request to re-publish this issue on today’s page. Below is a copy of the letter sent by the ACP Leadership team to each of the bishops…

AGM TODAY AT 2.00pm Via Zoom Join in! https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82012500266?pwd=cC9Gc3JJOHZjbzNGZ0JNRHo1TFpGZz09  Meeting ID: 820 1250 0266 Passcode: L92c4T All welcome…

Fr Colm Kilcoyne                  A gifted preacher with a real sense of place                       More than a week ago, in another marker of…

PLENTIFUL VOCATIONS – THANK GOD Many are called by GOD, but few are chosen by THE LADS (Joe 10:20!) An editorial by Michael Kelly in The Irish Catholic (October 1,…

The ACP Leadership Team Cordially invites you via Zoom to the   ACP AGM Wed Oct 28th @ 2.00pm Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82012500266?pwd=cC9Gc3JJOHZjbzNGZ0JNRHo1TFpGZz09  Meeting ID: 820 1250 0266 Passcode: L92c4T…

In the breaking of bread Chris McDonnell  At the beginning of this momentous year, I compared the date with the phrase ‘20/20 Vision’, not realizing just how out of focus…

Confessional Box now a relic of an old Ireland                  Western People 20.10.2020 When I was appointed a curate in Keenagh in Crossmolina parish in 1973, I inherited from my predecessor,…

America Magazine Editor’s note: This is a developing story. Check back for updates. In a new documentary that premiered in Rome yesterday, Pope Francis appeared to endorse civil unions for…

From the comfort of your own home or office join us for the Annual General Meeting of the ACP via Zoom on Wed Oct 28th 2020 @ 2.00pm Agenda, running…

WOMEN’S ORDINATION IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, by John O’Brien (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2019) by Angela Hanley My first reaction to such a…

‘Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket.’ The Fall: The leaves. The colour. The deep pile carpet. The Fall. Words can be such a distraction. They can…

From the Outside Brendan Hoban Many years ago, at an inter-church meeting, a Protestant minister who later became a great friend asked me the question: ‘Can you tell me this?…