Gerry O’Connor, CSsR, ACP leadership Team, Weekly Sunday Homily, Week 2 (C)

75 years ago, on 27 January 1945, the Soviet Red Army arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The world was soon to learn the full extent of the true horror of Nazi Fascism.
Chris McDonnell, writing in the Catholic Times, remembers: “All too easily we play with words to justify events, tell stories where truth is the casualty leading only to a greater misfortune. Maybe we should pause awhile as the month-end days arrive to ask a question and seek forgiveness.”

8 October 2024 The equality of women, and in particular calls for their ordination to the diaconate, has been one of the biggest issues to emerge in the synodal process…

“I panni stesi nella fede quotidiana” (“Clothes Hanging Out to Dry in Daily Faith”) is a new documentary by Italian director Alberto Valletta. The film, which explores the intersection of queerness and…

Crux Now carries a story about a group of eight celebrities as they traveled a section of the Via Francigena, the ancient pilgrimage route from Canterbury to Rome as part of the BBC2 show Pilgrimage.

Dr Marie O’Shea’s recently published report, on the effectiveness of the State’s abortion legislation,  called for widespread changes in the provision of abortion services. Recommendations  include the end of the…

From: https://catholicnews.ie/irish-synodal-pathway-welcomes-progress-of-universal-synods-ten-study-groups/ 19 Feb, 2025 | Church, News, Synod, World Coordinators and secretaries of ten Study Groups, set up in March 2024 by Pope Francis following the First Session of the Sixteenth Ordinary General Assembly…