AUDIO: Brendan Hoban’s ACI presentation on Synodality 24 June 2021

Following several requests for the Synod feature at the ACP AGM 2021… Click on the link to hear Kieran O’Mahony, followed by Peter McLoughlin and Patricia Melvin (Killala Diocese). Gerry…

Hope springs eternal in this post-Covid era Western People 15th June 2021 By the time you read this – if you follow Mayo football – you will know if Mayo…

Chris McDonnell, writing recently in the Catholic Times, said of the U.S. mid term elections, “What of the future? How will the Democracy of Immigrants that forms the United States rebuild trust and civility, what is required of each and every citizen?”
We wonder when we hear a President speak of ‘beautiful barbed wire’ being strung out along a border.
Chris also adds “Just as there is this fracture in our public life, for not only the US but other Western Democracies are also under threat, so too within our Christian community are fault lines and tensions apparent.”

Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David G. O’Connell, a native of Ireland who spent most of his four decades as a priest ministering in L.A.’s inner city, has died. He was…

Fourth industrial revolution is now upon us Western People 23.2.21 A lot has happened in the last 50 years. Here’s an instance of the extraordinary change witnessed in that half…

Brendan Hoban offers his thoughts, in his weekly Western People column, on Mary Kenny’s ‘Something of Myself and Others’. He says it is an entertaining and worthwhile read, surely the best insight there is into the life of the carer. Kenny dissects compellingly, in this brutally honest memoir, the lived experience of a carer’s life.