Year: 2024

Pope Francis renews appeal for ceasefire in Middle East At the conclusion of his midday Angelus prayer, Pope Francis appeals for a ceasefire in the Middle East, a release of…

Pope Francis announces a consistory for the creation of 21 new Cardinals from around the world to be held in the Vatican on 8 December 2024. By Deborah Castellano Lubov…

Western People 1.10.2024 Remember the Grand Old Duke of York immortalised in the words of the nursery rhyme?             Oh! The grand old Duke of York             He had ten…

This link covers most of the ‘stories’ happening at the Synod, from the Vatican News website: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/taglist.chiesa-e-religioni.Vaticano.sinodo.html

ACP Leadership Team member Gerry O’Connor on a video sermon for the 27th Sunday of the Year – Marriage Link:

Urgent – Corrupted link attached to link for Penitential Service in yesterday’s email! Dear friends and colleagues. I have just been informed that a corrupted link was attached to yesterday’s…

ACP AGM Wed 6 Nov 2024 2.00-5.00pm Radisson Hotel, Athlone. Speakers: Michael Conway, Paddy Boyle, Gerry O’Hanlon, Tim Hazelwood on Care of Priests and Synodality Paddy Boyle: The rights and…

The Synod is a movement of the Spirit. In order to be more aware of this, the participants in the XVI General Assembly had a special time of retreat and…

by Sarah Mac Donald The synodal process is about “a return to the Gospel” and it should not have “fashionable” reforms among its priorities, Bishop Paul Dempsey has said. Speaking…

Western People 24.9.2024 Have you noticed that, despite continuing to plummet in the polls, Sinn Féiners are smiling again. Probably, I suspect, for two reasons. One is all that delicious…

Note: The usual first Wednesday Healing Mass in Lady’s Island has been changed to Wed 9th Oct at 3pm. Tue 1st Oct 24 – Trying to figure God out! A…

Mother… Son She held Him in her arms for the very first time… in a stable…  at Bethlehem. Held Him a final time when lowered into her arms from a…

Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership Team on this Sunday’s Homily, 26th Sunday – ‘Hell’ Link to homily: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqD0770RGEA

The Czech theologian, Tomas Halik, was recently asked to give a talk to a working meeting of the European delegates to the October Synod. (Link to text of presentation at…

Thomas Reese Link to article: Part 1 of 3 articles https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/guest-voices/eucharist-about-more-real-presence The Eucharist should be the center of Catholic life, but falling church attendance on Sundays shows that the center…

Sarah Mac Donald Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan, Bishop of Waterford and LismoreOaksPics/Alamy Live News The Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, Alphonsus Cullinan, has been criticised for permitting a group that is…

(Walking along in the rain, noticing everything, including the clouds Drifting). HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Cosby, Max Clifford, Rolf Harris, Jimmy Savile, Huw Edwards, Brendan…

Comghairdeas to one of our founders, Brendan Hoban, on his National Media Award for his weekly column in the Western People newspaper – the longest-running columnist in a regional newspaper…