Author: Liamy Mac Nally

Tue 1st August Seeing as Having St Gregory of Nyssa wrote a homily on the Beatitudes, in which he writes, ‘in scriptural usage ‘seeing’ means ‘having’. When I read this…

JUL 30 This morning, Sunday, I attended an anniversary Mass of a person I had known. Yesterday evening I had been reading an article about the Synodal Process, and had…

This Sunday, Archbishop Eamon Martin will join with thousands of pilgrims of all ages in the annual pilgrimage to the summit of Croagh Patrick, Ireland’s holy mountain, for Reek Sunday…

…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…

LEGLESS BUT FLYING: Birgid Skarstein. Has 11 World Championship medals. 7 in Rowing and 4 in Cross country skiing. She is a Paralympic. She is Norwegian. She had an accident…

Western People 25.7.2023 In his poem, Church Going, the English poet Philip Larkin suggests that no matter what meaning churches have they should be preserved. A strange thought in that…

Dear Friends, In advance of the first assembly of the Universal Synod, which begins on 4 October 2023 (the last day of the Season of Creation), an ecumenical prayer vigil…

The Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has confirmed the approval by the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales for the new Lectionary.  The Lectionary, which…

Tue 25th July Loneliness Loneliness is undoubtedly one of the great cancers of our age that just eats into the bones. More and more people find themselves living on their…

TALK TO JOE: Joe Duffy. He is one of Noel Kelly’s ‘stars’ and among the high salaried in RTÉ. Joe does great work but his programme, it is, however, a…

This occurred during the installation of Bishop Stephen Wright at Hexham and Newcastle diocese. Link to speech below. Full script of the speech by Maggie Mathews at the end of…

An ACP website reader has suggested that we post a link to the above article from the First Things website. The article is by John Duggan. https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/08/sally-rooneys-catholic-millennials

Western People  18.7.23. My fifty years of priesthood (1973-2023) falls naturally into two parts. The first 40 years (1973-2013) were a struggle through a long and difficult wintertime when (as…

Tue 18th July The Professional Worrier A man told his friend that he was up to his neck in debt. He had lost his job, his car had been repossessed…

Western People 11.7.2023 RTÉ did what institutions tend to do. It created an elite and inevitably a culture of precedence and entitlement followed. It also side-lined a defining principle of…

The RTÉ Obsession: ‘The most trusted man in Ireland’ (?) he was, according to Noel Kelly. (Ryan Tubridy). ‘I am the same person; my soul hasn’t changed.’ (Ryan on himself)….

Western People 4.7.23. There’s another epidemic doing the rounds and it’s in danger of becoming a pandemic, though its effects are thankfully less related to health than to worldly success…

(A comprehensive overview of who will be attending the Synod discussions…) Article by Gerard O’Connell. The Synod on Synodality is officially the 16th ordinary assembly of the synod of bishops,…

The art of kissing:  I like the idea that Victor Manuel Fernandez has been appointed Head of DDF (formerly CDF). He might be rather different. Did he write a book…

Western People 27.6.23 I write a lot. Now in retirement writing is (mainly) what I do. Sometimes writing seems almost effortless as words pour themselves on to a page. Sometimes…