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Western People 23.6.2026 The most compelling question at present facing the Catholic Church in Ireland is the imminent disappearance of what has been a central and fundamental experience of Catholic…

Cardinal Mario Grech, Secretary General of the Synod, delivers the introductory address for the fourth session of the Consistory, inviting participants to view the implementation phase as a process of…

Pope Leo XIV meets with leaders of the Synod continental bodies as they reflect on the implementation of the Synod on Synodality and the path toward the 2028 Ecclesial Assembly….

by The EditorsJune 26, 2026 Link to article The hostility to immigrants enabled by yesterday’s Supreme Court decisions marks a profound moral failure in the American understanding of our national heritage….

‘Respite’ 13th Sunday Year A – 28 June 2026

(This article is from the Impartial Reporter newspaper, 23 June 2026. This link will take you to the full article. This link will take you to previous articles on this…

The ACP is grateful to Peter C Phan for permission to publish his article on Magnifica Humanitas. This is a link to all articles posted on the ACP site dealing…

Meeting of the heads of the continental bodies of the Catholic Church beginLink to article Opening the proceedings in the late afternoon of Tuesday, 23 June, Cardinal Mario Grech, Secretary General…

The Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments responds to the request made by the German Bishops, denying their petition for a lay person to preach the…

Pope Leo XIV will meet with members of the College of Cardinals on June 26-27 for an Extraordinary Consistory focused on the current situation of the Church and the world,…

Western People 16.6.2026 In our fragile and at times fragmenting world we were never more in need of moral giants to focus our minds and hearts on all that is…

Clergy are people too and often struggle in silence, afraid that opening up may be judged as a lack of faith Sarah MacDonald, writing in the Irish Independent Link to…

We’re told in today’s readings that hospitality is a gift that brings a great reward. As we gather to thank God for the many gifts we’ve received, we ask for…

Tues June 23rd – A Question to Mother Teresa Some years ago, the well-known priest and author Henri Nouwen who died quite young had the opportunity of meeting Mother Teresa….

Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/TheTeilhardProject Our final Rome screening of Teilhard: Visionary Scientist was at the Gregorian University on April 22. “The Greg,” as students there call it, is the premiere theological…

Western People 9.6.2026 Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. I know! But even that pearl of wisdom forever glistening in the background of this column is insufficient to…

June 16, 2026 Link to article Flashes Tony Flannery I was born into a rural, small-farming household in the West of Ireland just after the Second World War. From a…

‘Friendship’ 12th Sunday Year A – 21 June 2026

REMINDER!Where OUR Church is Going Fr. Derek ReeveFriday 19th June,  20.00 – 21.30 London time On 2nd June, 2012, Fr Derek Reeve, along with six other priests, wrote a letter to…