Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership Weekly Sunday Homily

Pope calls for day of prayer, fasting in solidarity with Lebanon One month after a massive explosion at a fertilizer storage facility tore through Beirut and reopened Lebanon’s old wounds,…

Reflections on COP 26 in Glasgow and the Future Challenges of Climate Change Sean McDonagh SSC The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established by the United Nations Environment…

Diocesan Appointments 2025 Pope Francis on his final day on the earth, Easter Sunday, showed us what it is to be strengthened by faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ….

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?”

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Seamus Ahearne advises “Pause, contemplate, give thanks and enter into real Communion. Allow the unexpected to happen.”