Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP Leadership Team, Weekly Sunday Homily

Brendan Hoban, writing in his column in The Western People, raises the issue of the campaign being waged to force the Catholic Church to hand over half of its primary level schools to patrons with a different ethos.
Brendan says that “The truth is that only Catholic parents can make that decision.”
and
“The real demand in Ireland is not for secular schools but for school places and providing adequate places is the responsibility, not of the Catholic Church, but of the State.”

Pia de Solenni writes in the America Magazine: When the Catholic Church officially addresses the question of whether women can be ordained to the priesthood, as it did in “Ordinatio…

We Turn Around One Thing Unity is not the same as uniformity. Unity, in fact, is the reconciliation of differences, and those differences must be maintained. We must actually distinguish…

Iggy O Donovan offered his thoughts on the upcoming referendum in The Irish Times.
“The arguments crowd in on us from both sides. Much of life today is like that and we cannot off-load our troubled consciences on others, whether in church or State. We have to make our own decisions for ourselves.”

OUR ROOT & BRANCH Inclusive Lay-led Synod 5 – 12th Sept, 2021 Our deepest gratitude to our amazing speakers and panellists in an unparalleled week of offerings, talks and discussions. And…

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