Author: Liamy Mac Nally

On the fourth Sunday of Easter each year, we honour the Risen Lord as our Good Shepherd. We pray for vocations to priesthood and Religious life: we pray that God…

 hello@rootandbranchsynod.org                  www.rootandbranchsynod.org            No. 151             06/05/2025 “The Church is like a bird with a…

ALCATRAZ: ‘Escape from Alcatraz ‘(1979) with Clint Eastwood, impressed many, and was a successful film. Seemingly, it aired recently on a South Florida PBS Station. Within hours, the Donald had…

Should world news media be giving serious time these days to the possibility that the direction set by Pope Francis for Catholic Church reform – the programme he called ‘Synodality‘ – could be reversed by…

Three Wood You Believe evening seminars entitled Getting the Past out of the Present involving Personal and Ancestral Healing are scheduled to be held in the Edmund Rice Healing Centre…

Western People 29.4.2025 Very few, I imagine, were surprised that the death of Pope Francis provoked such a widespread public response as different constituencies of interest lined up to pay…

‘Trust’ – 3rd Sunday Easter Year C 2025

On the occasion of the death of Bishop Brendan Comiskey the leadership of the Association of Catholic Priests wish to offer sincere sympathy to the family, relations and friends of…

The Funeral observations (Pope Francis) were extraordinary. The coverage on the BBC; on all the papers; on The Sunday Times (a full front page of the scene up to the…

PUBLISHED 28 April 2025 Dipping into HopeAn Anchor in Stormy Waters Alan Hilliard ‘In the heart of each person, hope dwells as the desire and expectation of good things to…

This article was first published on the Association of Catholics in Ireland website: https://acireland.ie/the-pyramid-will-stay-inverted/ Pope Francis’ enemies in the church will be ‘talked up’ by media as possibly capable of…

Coming Events Three Wood You Believe evening seminars entitled Getting the Past out of the Present involving Personal and Ancestral Healing are scheduled to be held in the Edmund Rice…

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Popes come and go, Christ remains; and with Christ the community of disciples we call church. It has been like that for two millennia. Today Pope Francis is being buried,…

The doors are sealed The ring is broken The chair is empty Francis has been called to his place After his burial in simple style The conclave will gather To…

The video homily for this weekend – 2nd weekend Easter – Year C 2025. The title is ‘Fertile Doubt’:

Please join our Liturgy for our Day of Prayer for Survivors and Victims of Abuse Each year the Catholic Church asks us to hold a Day of Prayer for Survivors and Victims…

“The walls of hospitals have heard more honest prayers than churches…They have witnessed far more sincere kisses than those in airports…It is in hospitals that you see a homophobe being…

Link to article: https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41618119.html Though not a great surprise, due to his recent serious illness, the announcement of the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday morning is a matter…

Western People 15th April 2025 Recently, Bishop Donal Roche, auxiliary Bishop of Dublin, said he was worried that the sacredness of the liturgy is being eroded by, for example, people…