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Any Woman by Katherine Tynan I am the pillars of the house; The keystone of the arch am I. Take me away, and roof and wall Would fall to ruin…

  COMMUNION Donal Dorr [Started 2 March ‘21]          I am an eight-five-year-old missionary priest living in Dublin as a member of a community of nine semi-retired elderly colleagues. We…

Gerard O’Connell reports in America Magazine: The Vatican’s Secretariat of State has issued an instruction regarding the celebration of Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, suppressing Masses said by a priest by…

  A loyal custodian of the flame of Vatican II Western People 9.3.2021 When Lahardane-man, John MacHale died in 1881 in his 90th year – after 67 years as a…

Irish Bishops Conference Wed 10 March 2021 Walking Together – A Synodal Pathway leading to a National Synodal Assembly for the Catholic Church in Ireland At our Spring General Meeting…

MARCH 2021 Dear Friends, My ordination class, the class of ‘81, and not a bishop among us. 40 years in ministry through turbulent and changing times. The Ireland of today,…

   Perseverance has landed Chris McDonnell CT March 12th 2021 The fourth rock from the Sun, the planet Mars, has for centuries held a fascination for the human dwellers of…

Doris Reisinger (Wagner) “Abuse and Reform in the Catholic Church” Followed by Q & A 7.30 – 9.00pm Monday 15th of March 2021 Online ZOOM event   Doris Reisinger (Wagner)…

A medley of disparate sounds The rising sun: ‘That they may face the rising sun.’ (McGahern). I did that, this morning. It appeared over the horizon. It was a glowing…

Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them,…

 International Women’s Day: “No Woman, No Church” Prayer and Video To celebrate International Women’s Day we offer a Prayer and video for the full Equality of Women in the Catholic…

Thanks to our Support Team at ActonBV the Recent Comments section on our Homepage is back up and running…míle buíochas.

Celebrating Eucharist through the medium of Zoom: A radical experiment. ”The Sabbath was made for human beings, not human beings for the Sabbath” (Mk 2:27) I am writing these lines…

Gospel of Luke and Sam worth listening to Western People 2.3.21 The ‘good cop/bad cop’ routine is a well-known psychological tactic used in policing, whereby a team of two interrogators…

We pray for the successful visit of Pope Francis to Iraq, starting today. Link to the timetable of events for Pope Francis in Iraq. http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/travels/2021/outside/documents/papa-francesco-iraq-2021.html

Towards a Synodal Irish Church Address of Cardinal Mario Grech to the Bishops of Ireland February 3, 2021 Link below: http://www.synod.va/content/synod/en/news/towards-a-synodal-irish-church.html Letter in full: Dear brothers, It is a privilege…

Interesting article from Massimo Faggioli in the Commonweal Magazine: “This is the magisterium: the Council is the magisterium of the Church. Either you are with the Church and therefore you follow…

Chris McDonnell CT March 5th 2021   Carole King’s fabulous song Tapestry begins with these words: ‘My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue an everlasting vision…