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

19th Jan 2022 – 6.00-7.00pm The Synodal Pathway: Good News for Catholic Women? PENELOPE MIDDELBOE at the  TABLET WEBINAR Come and put your questions! Root &Branch is honoured that Penelope…

Chris McDonnell writes in the Catholic Times about the urgency of the cry from the depths about the future of our church.
“Current critics have rocked the complacency of many priests and laity who simply prefer not to think of failure within the church. They still occupy a Church of peace and tranquillity that is the stuff of false memory. That is why the urgency to change is not recognized. The first stimulus  to begin reform is a recognition that current circumstances cry out with the urgency of a wounded child.”

THOMAS REESE 10 June 2024 Areport from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on diocesan discussions about the Synod on Synodality released May 28 made clear how many issues are…

Press Communiqué from the General Secretariat of the Synod Original text: ITALIAN This morning, at the end of the Sunday Angelus, the Holy Father announced that the upcoming 16th Ordinary…

Who celebrates the Eucharist and what are they celebrating? An exploration of the simple, yet tough questions that can deepen our understanding of this fulcrum of the Mass Who, exactly, are…

a poet remembered  Chris McDonnell                                   “Walk on air against your better judgement” Heaney’s tombstone  Not many live lives that, in their passing, are so noticed and admired as that…