Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership – Weekly Sunday video homily

America Magazine reports: Pope Francis has given a text called “The Beatitudes of the Bishop” to all the Italian bishops meeting in plenary assembly in Rome. The text offers encouragement…

Many thanks to Michael A. McGinn.
Best wishes to all members who are celebrating significant anniversaries.

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?”

By Susan Bigelow Reynolds Susan Bigelow Reynolds is assistant professor of Catholic Studies at Candler School of Theology at Emory University.  Link to article: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/women-church-synod-francis-catholic Whenever I read a Vatican statement on…

Western People 26.11.24 Last year when President Joe Biden visited Ballina and, from outside St Muredach’s Cathedral, addressed thousands of people encircled at every possible vantage-point around the loop of…

Here Seán O’Conaill argues that ‘Salvation’ must be understood in climatic terms also to address growing climate fear…   According to an article in the New York Times in April of this…