Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP leadership Team – weekly Sunday video homily

BBC NI have published an article, prepared ahead of the Irish papal visit, on their website.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/Ireland_between_Popes

A human and honest response to the news of a cancer diagnosis, Dancing to my Death is Daniel O’Leary’s final book.

Brendan Hoban writing in his weekly Western People column worries about the type of church some church leaders are pushing on the faithful.
“What’s emerging is almost a church within a church where visions, novenas and relics skirt the edges of superstition, where questionable piosities are lauded and intellectual rigour is suspect, where asking a question is tantamount to betrayal, where pleasure is distrusted and sexual pleasure anathema, where Catholicism takes on an Amish-like appearance and where a series of ‘Catholic’ newspapers encourage a return to the severity, rigidity and judgementalism of the past.’

‘You don’t bring me flowers anymore.’ The Bible of nature: There are hints of Autumn everywhere. The colours are quite beautiful. Nature is also at work with decomposition: Bacteria, Fungi,…

“The question has to be asked as to why what is best, what demands hard work, is not the calling of every single person who takes on the job of…