Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership Easter Sunday Homily

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…

Training Courses and Programmes Two important training opportunities on synodality are opening this October and November. Both online courses (with CEG also offering an in person workshop) are designed to…

Brendan Hoban in his weekly Western People column offers his thoughts on the outcome of the marriage referendum.
“A clear message for the Church is that the bishops’ view was roundly rejected not just by the gay community, or those sympathetic to its views, but by tens of thousands of ‘ordinary’ Catholics.”
“There’s a massive change taking place in Ireland and, once again, the Catholic Church finds itself out-thought and out-manoeuvred, too influenced by the conservative right, ….
Trying to keep out the tide is always a failed enterprise. When will we learn that simple truth?”

Western People 27.2.2024 It would be gratuitous not to congratulate Michelle O’Neill of Sinn Féin (SF) and Emma Little-Pengelly of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) on their day in the…

Jim McCormack CM asks whether in a rapidly changing world the sacraments as we celebrate them require a complete overhaul . Evolution and change over decades and centuries has always been part of the church, its ministry and its celebration of sacraments; “Gradually a system will develop which will satisfactorily cover all the appropriate bases.”
The challenge facing the “POWERS THAT BE” is in deciding to let go and let what is past ‘rest in peace’.

WAC have organised a ZOOM Synod Symposium on 15 November 2023. We have expanded our capacity from 100 to 250 for this ZOOM meeting, as we sold out 100 very fast!So…