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Brendan Hoban: Spending €25 million on ‘The Pro’ is questionable
March 20 2026
Elizabeth Spicer
Am appalled that a "follower of Christ" would even contemplate such an expenditure given the poverty of so many homeless and struggling people here in Ireland to say nothing of other countries. Where does he imagine the money would come from anyway!! I would also take issue with Bishop McGuckian - who incidentally taught my three sons in Clongowes - I really do wonder about our so called hierarchy.... Thanks be to God for the ACP site which I access every day, particularly Frs Séamus Ahearne, Brendan Hoban, Jim Cogley and like minded, who gives me hope. God bless, Elizabeth Spicer
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Irish Catholic: Bishop McGuckian – ‘The door to female diaconate is shut and Pope Francis should have said so.’
March 20 2026
James Mc Hugh
I'm struggling here, running hard to standstill. Our of the mists of time, this story arises. While searching about for material for Senior Girls RE class, in an American catechetical bulletin I chanced upon this account: Teenage daughter, critically ill in hospital, will not agree to have the chaplain or indeed any priest talk with her. In desperation, mother contacts a girl from schooldays, who is now a sister in religion. Sister comes to the hospital, spends considerable time talking with Daughter who agrees to have some prayers said. Tears follow and the girl pours out her heart to mother's friend. Time passes while mother waits outside, hoping and praying. When Sister comes out, her words to mother bring great relief and comfort. She offers to come again another day. As they are parting, Sister turns to mother and says, 'You know the only thing stopping me giving Diane absolution was that I am lacking a penis". post scriptum: "Upon mature reflection", and given that Mother Brendan had rescued my application for the post from the waste paper bin, the story remained within the pages of the catechetical bulletin.
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25 March 2026 – The Annunciation of the Lord
March 25 2026
Mary Anne Little
The Solemnity of the Annunciation is a Feast Day primarily of Jesus. It is the Incarnation of the Lord. On this Day, we welcome Our Redeemer and Savior, Who said Yes to the Father, Who willed that we be saved. The Angel Gabriel was sent to Mary, whose assent to the Divine Will made possible the Incarnation; but on this Day, Our Blessed Mother has placed Herself in the background so that we may know the importance of the Conception of Jesus and may welcome Him as He enters the world! This Solemnity has become the forgotten Feast; but, even though it comes within the shadow of the Cross - no, because it comes so close to Holy Week - we must rejoice and celebrate the Coming that was awaited and prayed for for so long, because it was for the Cross that Jesus Became Man.
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Brendan Hoban: Bishop’s youth thesis is not rooted in reality
March 22 2026
Robert McDonnell
I, for one, believe that killing unborn children in the womb is never justified for any reason, as it is always the deliberate killing of a human being. On the scale we now have, nearly one million abortions per year in the EU, 73 million (WHO) globally per year which outpaces global deaths (63 million), for me and many others this ranks as one of the worst crimes of mankind if not the worst, portrayed with the greatest lie of mankind that this is healthcare. Sex and gender are, and always have been, synonymous biologically and scientifically. Trans ideology activists promote the fantasy that they are somehow different, but conflate them when it suits to get laws changed (GRA 2015), and to enter female spaces. Each of us is born male or female with XY or XX chromosomes in every single one of the trillions of cells in our bodies. A male who says he is female or vice versa and takes hormones or has surgery doesn't change anything biologically, not one single cell, and is still 100% their full birth sex that was determined by God, from the moment of conception, not falsely assigned at birth! Non binary is part of the fantasy, the person is still 100% male or female from conception onwards. Saying one can change sex is like saying one can change race, e.g. a white man who identifies as a black man, it doesn't ever make him a black man, or vice versa, all this is simply the difference between reality and fantasy.
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25 March 2026 – The Annunciation of the Lord

Brendan Hoban: Bishop’s youth thesis is not rooted in reality