Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership weekly Sunday video homily

The Misneach programme on Tony Flannery was broadcast on TG4 on Wed 18 Oct 2023 @ 9.30pm. For those who missed it or wish to see it again this is…

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…

Daniel P Horan in the NCR writes on the closure of churches and the suspension of public acts of worship in this time of pandemic.
“we are all called upon to care for one another by taking extraordinary measures that includes the suspension of public worship, means learning to see our love of neighbor not only as an assent to “worldly” or “secular” medical wisdom, but also an actual exercise of our love of God. Each of the manifold ways we are sacrificing to love our neighbors — self-isolation, quarantining, tending to the sick at home, supporting first responders, avoiding public places, not hoarding supplies, working remotely and even not going physically to church buildings — is itself an expression of our love of God.”

Paschal Sheehy, RTÉ Southern Editor reports: The Catholic Church in Ireland is facing huge change, as an effective pause on retirements in response to the pandemic comes to an end….

Ngala Killian Chimtom Aug 14, 2024, Africa Correspondent YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Archbishop Buti Joseph Tlhagale of Johannesburg in South Africa is warning men will be held accountable for the abuses…

Caritas Christi urget nos. (2 Cor 5.14) For the birds: The mornings are good. The river is hospitable. The ducks and herons sleep on. The swan- family fly in together…