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

Further to the Sunday Independent story today, 17 November, the ACP issued a statement regarding Oliver O’Reilly PP and the position he has adopted in relation to the recent attack on Mr Kevin Lunney.

Sunday 24 Aug 2025 – 21st Sunday Year C 2025 – Theme – ‘Alignment’

The Pope’s Prayer for Ukraine – in English and Italian Pope Francis prays for Ukraine From America Magazine via Pádraig McCarthy, also with Italian original. https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2022/03/16/pope-francis-prayer-ukraine-242607 VATICAN CITY (CNS) —…

Pádraig McCarthy draws our attention to the preparatory document: “Amazonia: New Paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology” of the Synod of Bishops for the Special Assembly for the Pan-Amazon Region.

Pope Francis’ annual address to the Roman Curia.
“there is a need to be wary of the temptation to rigidity.  A rigidity born of the fear of change, which ends up erecting fences and obstacles on the terrain of the common good, turning it into a minefield of incomprehension and hatred.  Let us always remember that behind every form of rigidity lies some kind of imbalance.  Rigidity and imbalance feed one another in a vicious circle.  And today this temptation to rigidity has become very real.”

…she was teaching me something about what mattered—about the pursuit of justice in the face of evil, of the duty of accompaniment in the face of suffering, of the importance…