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

‘All Together Now.’ Relics of old decency: It was my father’s, sister’s and mother’s 20th anniversary. We drove down south. We went back to the clay of the past. We…

Julieann Moran: Greetings to you all from Rome!  The final document from the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod has been published this evening and is available below. I…

Seán O’Conaill questions Ilia Delio’s evolutionary critique of Pope Leo’s ‘Magnifica Humanitas’  “The most revealing word in Magnifica Humanitas is a verb: remain. ‘Our duty in the age of AI,’ Leo writes, ‘is…

ALCATRAZ: ‘Escape from Alcatraz ‘(1979) with Clint Eastwood, impressed many, and was a successful film. Seemingly, it aired recently on a South Florida PBS Station. Within hours, the Donald had…

The President, Michael D. Higgins, met with the authors of ‘A Dialogue of Hope’.

Brendan Hoban writing in the Western People suggests that “Part of the problem we have in the Irish Catholic Church is that little respect was given to the critical voices that time and again warned against the icebergs stalking our voyage. A lack of vision, a failure in leadership and an inability to cope with the complexities of a changing world meant that the uncritical voices, especially those that echoed official thinking, were given an inordinate influence in the last few decades. And anyone who didn’t subscribe to the old conservatism was taken out in some shape or form.”