Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership weekly Sunday video homily
‘Virtue’ 6th Sunday Year A – 15 Feb 2026
‘Virtue’ 6th Sunday Year A – 15 Feb 2026
A member subscribes: There are times when I think all our efforts at calling for reform in the church are really at an amateur level when compared with those who…
Western People 3.2.2026 Around the time I was ordained in 1973 a major survey on religious practice in Ireland was published. Its main finding was that over 90% of Irish…
Chris McDonnell, using the example of the Marriage referendum result, questions how the voice of the people and the ‘Sensus Fidelium’ can be accommodated at the Synod on the Family.
“We can only hope that the voice of the people is recognised in their debate and reflection, for if the outcome of the Synod is to be accepted within the body of the Church, it has to be accepted by the pilgrim people to whom it seeks to offer support and guidance. “
The Catholic Church in Ireland has had little experience of a Synod in the past 100 years. Anyone under 70 is too young to have any memories of such an…
Vatican News reports: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2022-07/pope-francis-departure-apostolic-journey-canada.html Pope Francis departs from Rome’s Fiumicino Airport on Sunday morning to begin his 37th Apostolic Journey abroad, which will see him embrace the people of Canada….
Church’s Great Council is finally back on track Western People 23.3.2021 As regular readers of this column will know, the Second Vatican Council has long been a telling reference point…