Author: Liamy Mac Nally

These are weekly homilies shared by Fr. Gerard O’Connor C.S.s.R., at the Redemptorist Community, in Scala, Cork, Ireland. Gerry is a member of the ACP Leadership Team. Link:

Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.” It was to this teaching…

Just to let you know that you can tune in to next Sunday Service at 3pm with Celine Byrne Soprano singing and speaking in Our Lady’s Island. Just go to …

Link to article (full article printed below): https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/guest-voices/avoid-extremes-when-dealing-role-religion-politics?utm_source=NCR+List&utm_campaign=3a5b08987e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_08_19_10_38&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6981ecb02e-3a5b08987e-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D The role of religion and politics has always been controversial in America, from its inception to the present day. Many of the…

A note from Julieann Moran, General Secretary for the Synodal Pathway. Dear Representatives, You are receiving this email as you, or someone on behalf of your movement, association, organisation or…

Tues 20th Aug 24 – Biblical Keys to Happiness Fifty years ago, I came to a stage where I was feeling particularly distressed while training for the priesthood in Maynooth…

Western People  13. 8.2024 Almost 60 years ago when, with 83 classmates, I entered Maynooth College to study for the priesthood, we were given a number of books to guide…

Weekend 17/18th August-Proverbs 9:1-6 Wisdom is building a house and then erecting a sign, with an invitation for all the ignorant and foolish to come along. The language is strong…

WEE GIRL FRETTING – Oh, Daddy – – There, there, alana – – Daddy, Daddy – – Schhh, now, schhh… – If, if Mummy can’t get in – – Nice…

It Could Happen to a Bishop 08/08/2024 From the Sacred Heart University website. Link to article: https://sacredheartuniversity.typepad.com/go_rebuild_my_house/2024/08/it-could-happen-to-a-bishop.html July in Ireland is the time we have our All-Ireland football and hurling…

with Dr. Luca Badini Confalonieri, followed by a dialogue with Fr. Helmut Schüller and a Q & A ZOOM 14.00 – 15.30hrs CEST (1.00-2.30pm Irish time) Saturday 7th of September…

Hybrid online, live and in-person Hinsley Hall, Leeds Friday 30th Aug – Sunday 1st Sept. R O O T  &  B R A N C H A COMMUNITY FOR REFORM…

Sun Aug 11 2024 – 00:30 Irish missionaries’ heroism and selflessness abroad is often overlooked today The contributions of this unique group of the Irish diaspora have been overlooked to…

Updated / Sunday, 11 Aug 2024 18:42 By Ailbhe Conneely Social Affairs & Religion Correspondent Apostolic Nuncio to the European Union Archbishop Noël Treanor has died aged 73. It is understood the…

Australasian Catholic Coalition for Church ReformPassing generation of Vatican II clergyJohn Warhurst Yet another religious order or congregation leaves our diocese. A much-loved Vatican II-inspired archbishop dies. Our parish priest…

Western People 6.8.2024 In the light of my reflections last week on the subject of priests’ changes, a reader both commends me for a column I wrote some months back…

Western People 30.7.2024 As I write, the Democratic Party in America is struggling to cope onfour fronts: a series of gaffes on television that made President Biden’s withdrawal from the…

The death has occurred of Very Rev Frank Canon O’Connor, Limerick Very Rev Frank Canon O’Connor, peacefully in the wonderful care of the staff of Milford Care Centre on the…

A LITTLE GIRL FROM A TINY VILLAGE: “I was a little girl from a tiny, little village – and I still am that little girl from Sligo,” Mona McSharry said….

The Irish Child & Family Institute (ICFI) was established in 2006 with the goal of providing independent child welfare and psycho-social services to a variety of statutory and non- statutory…