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Climate Sunday Service Patricia & Emmet Devlin ZOOM Meeting  11.00 am Sunday 5th of September 2021     This is NOT a Eucharist. What is Climate Sunday? The Climate Sunday…

Thoughts on priesthood and faith Priests as magicians? I was in Birmingham (St Mary’s Harborne) during the week. We were celebrating 402 years of priesthood: Eight Golden Jubilarians. I was…

It has always been accepted practice on the ACP site that, in exceptional circumstances, contributors could use a pseudonym when posting. The condition is that their real identity is known…

Church turns up the heat on climate deniers. Western People 24th August 2021 ‘May you live in interesting times’, it’s said, is a translation of a traditional Chinese curse. Sometimes,…

R O O T  &  B R A N C H A SYNOD THAT STARTS WITH WOMEN AND DOESN’T END THERE. *In the Catholic Church, Synods usually mean only bishops…

Two reviews of Seán McDonagh’s book Robots, Ethics and the Future of Jobs. The first is by Dr. Margaret McGaley and it appears in the current edition of Studies, a…

Article from ACI website  What is it to be Holy? What exactly is holiness? Will we know it when we see it? Is it attainable by anyone, or only by those who…

Irish bishops listened to the wrong voices. Western People 17.8.2021 When something is difficult to understand, a good tactic is to look behind the presenting problem and ask the question:…

This article, from NCR Online and dating from July 2019, was submitted following recent discussion in these pages on Synodality… LOUISVILLE, KY. — In his recent book Worship as Community Drama, sociologist…

A Church in crisis demands creativity Dublin’s newly appointed Archbishop, Dermot Farrell engaged with Síolta Editor, Darragh Kennedy for a COVID-19 “virtual” Q&A in which he expresses his confidence in…

From The Irish Times: Tues 17 August 2021: Church criticism of Covid curbs may trigger review of place of sacraments in school by Fr Tony Flannery It is now a…

Irish Examiner Monday 16 Aug 2021: The Catholic Church doesn’t have a great record in consulting people. It is a pyramidal structure, completely controlled by male clergy. Nobody else has…

Tim Hazelwood: The costly price of Church mismanagement – Time for honest change It isn’t often that a story about a priest in The Tablet ends with the contact number…

15 August 2021 Today is no ordinary day. The Taliban are already at the gates of Kabul after a lightning takeover of the rest of Afghanistan. If an agreement can…

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning   (Meister Eckhart) The Pelican, Kingfisher and Heron: The Pelican took off for the River Avoca. It needed a change from Fota….

The ACP Leadership fully endorses the statement of our (founding) member Seán McDonagh to reduce carbon emissions by 50% by 2030. The recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…