ACP Zoom guest speaker, Julieann Moran, General Secretary for the Synodal Pathway, will discuss where the Synodal Pathway (Ireland) and the Universal Synod are at present. Julieann has just returned…
As we gather, we are challenged to be hospitable, welcoming people. We worship the God who always has a welcome for us.Penitential RiteSupported by this divine care, we call to…
The beautiful story of the Good Samaritan is told again at today’s Mass, with its challenge to us to look after others, as the Good Samaritan did. We gather to…
John Wijngaards is founder of the UK-based Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research, writing in the Irish Times: Pope Francis has unleashed a synodal process of consultations in the Catholic Church. It offers…
Coming Seminars: Wood You Believe Tara Centre, Omagh Fri 13th&-9.30pm Loss & Recovery Sat 14th 10–4pm Discovering your Higher Purpose with Jim Cogley and Luba Rodzhuk Enquiries to Tara Centre…
Link to press release New appointments, involving both clergy and lay staff, having been agreed over recent months and, while they have been announced as they took place, I now…
During a prayer vigil in Uruguay, Pope Leo XIV urges the faithful not to settle for a merely decent life or habitual faith, but to give themselves completely to the…
Risen He stood, faintly lit, in an open tomb… carefully untying the cloth covering his head and face. Then folding… placing aside. Likewise the linen. ‘Crossing slowly to the entrance……
Pope Leo XIV begins his Apostolic Journey to South America with a discourse on the common good, reflecting on democracy, our duties toward future generations, care for human dignity and…
A story from Ontario, Canada “We have to get moving”! That was the message Bishop Michael Brehl CSsR heard repeatedly when he arrived in the Diocese of Pembroke in August…
THE DEAD AND FUNERALS: The month of November. The Dead. One of the most attended Church Services in the year is the Gathering we have for the 2nd of November,…
ACP AGM Wed 11 Nov 2026 2.00-5.00pm Tullamore Court Hotel, Tullamore All Welcome Speakers Gerry O’Hanlon SJ and Patricia Melvin on Synodal Pathway developments Tim Hazelwood – Care of Priests…
October brought the news that Catholics in Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland, had long dreaded. Falling Mass attendance has hollowed out parishes across the metropolis, and a vocations crisis…
At this time of year, our deceased relatives and friends are often in our minds. Our faith tells us that we needn’t grieve over them like people with no hope….
‘Attentiveness’ 32nd Sunday Year A – 8 Nov 2026 •
The renowned American singer-songwriter and poet—a Nobel laureate in literature, currently touring Italy with a stop in Rome—was received this afternoon at the Apostolic Palace by Leo XIV. The Pontiff…
I am a numbers person. When I walk into a meeting, I estimate the attendance: how many men – women; average age; racial mix, etc. So I looked at the…
WOOD YOU BELIEVE An Tobar Spiritans, Navan, Co Meath – RECOVERY FROM LOSS – Fri 6Nov. 7.30 – 9.30pm PERSONAL AND ANCESTRAL HEALING – Sat 7 Nov. 10am – 4pm…
There has been great sadness both at home in Donegal and here in Scotland since the announcement by the Diocese of Motherwell last Sunday that Fr. Brian Logue had sadly…
Today and tomorrow we remember all the dead, those in heaven and those still be on the way there: God alone knows where each soul is. Today’s feast celebrates the saints in heaven, the holy men and women of every time and place: we hope some of our people are among them.
‘Keeping Vigil’ All Saints Day Year A – 1 Nov 2026
Western People 27. 10. 2026 Just over a week or so ago 300 delegates from all corners of Ireland gathered in the North West Hotel in Gormanston, County Meath for…
There is a crisis of generational transmission of the Catholic Christian faith in this era – a crisis that defies the catechetical models we have inherited. This frank admission by…
Midwest Radio’s Faith Alive presenter Monica Morley spoke with Gerry O’Hanlon, SJ, in the wake of the Gormanston National Irish Synodal Assembly and issues raised at the meeting …
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