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Catching Up on the Synodal Journey: News, Reflections and Next Steps 🕊️ Dear friends in faith, So much is happening in our Church these days, it feels like I’m constantly racing to…

PATRICIA ROUTLEDGE AND EDMUND COLLEDGE OSA: Patricia Routledge has died. When I asked at Mass if people knew who she was; most faces lit up, and in unison, Hyacinth Bucket…

Western People 30.9.2025 The presidential election is leisurely stumbling toward a conclusion as, to use a biblical reference, ‘the sheep’ (those deemed entitled to compete in the upcoming election) are…

Note: A Seminar on Healing – Finding Freedom from Personal and Ancestral Trauma will be given by Jim Cogley on Sat 18th Oct from 10am to 4pm in the Edmund…

Soline Humbert’s book launch on 1 October 2025 in Trinity College, Dublin. Speakers at the launch included Michael Kirwan SJ, Phil Dunne (MC), Ursula Halligan, Gerry O’Hanlon SJ and Soline…

The Holy See Press Office announces that Pope Leo XIV signed his first Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi te on Saturday morning. The document will be presented on Thursday, 9 October, at…

Bishop Sarah, the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury, will be the first woman to hold the office.  Link to story (reprinted below): https://www.churchofengland.org/media/press-releases/rt-revd-and-rt-hon-dame-sarah-mullally-dbe-become-106th-archbishop-canterbury His Majesty The King has approved the nomination of…

Dear Member Diary Date: ACP AGM Wed 5 Nov 2025 in the Radisson Blu Hotel, Athlone. All members are invited to attend our AGM in Athlone. It will run from…

This document is aimed at providing a wider context to the Gaza genocide for priests and clergy. The aim is to highlight the 8th October as the second anniversary of the…

Sunday 5th October 2025 – 27th Sunday of the Year (C) Theme: Courageous Beginning Link:

Note: A Seminar on Healing -Finding Freedom from Personal and Ancestral Trauma will be given by Jim Cogley on Sat 18th Oct from 10am to 4pm in the Edmund Rice…

Training Courses and Programmes Two important training opportunities on synodality are opening this October and November. Both online courses (with CEG also offering an in person workshop) are designed to…

September 24, 2025 Several of us watched Cardinal Dolan’s recent FOX interview, where he referred to Charlie Kirk as “a modern-day St. Paul.” The Cardinal praised Mr. Kirk’s conviction and…

Western People  23.9.2025 We live in strange  times. While a permanent feature of life in every century and in every decade is to be convinced that ‘the world is in…

Changing Mindsets/ Shifts in Consciousness: I recently attended a day of Reflection at Cabragh Wetlands (https://cabraghwetlands.ie/), near Holycross, Co. Tipperary.  The presentation was given by Bishop John Ryan SPS, retired Bishop…

I asked the chapter to approve the following proposal:  This Ordinary General Chapter asks the whole church—through  the ongoing process of actual synodality—to keep pursuing its important focus on the…

(The anniversary Mass is in St Joseph’s Redemptorist Church, Dundalk today.) His wife Leila flew into Belfast airport and was collected by Peter (Eddie’s brother) for this Mass and the…

The Orcadian poet Morag MacInnes, wrote her reflections on the teachers who influenced her. It is a beautiful article and rather evocative. (The Tablet  11th September 2025). I circulated that…

Thirteen new seminarians have begun their 2025-2026 academic programme and priestly formation for Irish dioceses. Welcoming the new student intake, Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan, chair of the Bishops’ Council for Vocations,…