The ACP Leadership Team Cordially invites you via Zoom to the ACP AGM Wed Oct 28th @ 2.00pm Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82012500266?pwd=cC9Gc3JJOHZjbzNGZ0JNRHo1TFpGZz09 Meeting ID: 820 1250 0266 Passcode: L92c4T…
In the breaking of bread Chris McDonnell At the beginning of this momentous year, I compared the date with the phrase ‘20/20 Vision’, not realizing just how out of focus…
There’s a reminder of the two great commandments in today’s celebration: we are called to love God and our neighbour: friend, visitor and stranger alike.
Confessional Box now a relic of an old Ireland Western People 20.10.2020 When I was appointed a curate in Keenagh in Crossmolina parish in 1973, I inherited from my predecessor,…
America Magazine Editor’s note: This is a developing story. Check back for updates. In a new documentary that premiered in Rome yesterday, Pope Francis appeared to endorse civil unions for…
From the comfort of your own home or office join us for the Annual General Meeting of the ACP via Zoom on Wed Oct 28th 2020 @ 2.00pm Agenda, running…
WOMEN’S ORDINATION IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, by John O’Brien (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2019) by Angela Hanley My first reaction to such a…
‘Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket.’ The Fall: The leaves. The colour. The deep pile carpet. The Fall. Words can be such a distraction. They can…
From the Outside Brendan Hoban Many years ago, at an inter-church meeting, a Protestant minister who later became a great friend asked me the question: ‘Can you tell me this?…
As God’s family in this place, we gather to worship. We offer our love, our support and our prayers to all the Christian communities throughout the world.
From the Outside by Tony Flannery Zoom Book Launch on Wednesday 21st October 2020 @ 7.30pm by Emeritus Professor Tom O’Loughlin University of Nottingham Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89709892024?pwd=a2FzdVdIOUdhS2x0cWZ1cUxnVG9oUT09 Meeting…
Head coverings come in many shapes and sizes, as do the terracotta tiles that roof houses. This week’s words are built round the various tiles we wear on our heads…
If fidelity oaths seem like something out of the Crusades, contemporary Catholics might be surprised to hear that the Vatican is still requiring some theologians and pastors to sign them….
Our Mission Today A sliver of moon: These mornings, a sliver of a moon stares at me. Thoughts of the ‘hammer and sickle’ come to mind. (The solidarity aspect rather…
Was the bishops’ intervention wise? Western People 13.10.2020 During the Great Famine (1945-52) much play was made of the slogan ‘Property should support poverty’. In other words, landlords (the property…
The Confessors Documentary that speaks to a selection of Irish priests, urban, rural and chaplains discuss the sins they’ve heard that have impacted and stayed with them. They also discuss…
The crisis is hitting the churches hard, but it would be difficult to justify an exemption from restrictions for places of worship… Ireland’s four Catholic Archbishops made an unrealistic request…
Fr Bernd Hagenkord SJ – ACP Zoom presentation Tues 6 Oct 2020 What can the Irish Church learn from Germany? The introduction was by host Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP Leadership…
Gerry O Hanlon SJ speaking on Fratelli Tutti on Midwest Radio’s Faith Alive programme on Sun Oct 11th 2020 with Monica Morley and Brendan Hoban. “It’s a nice insight into it and…
We gather as fellow-pilgrims at this Sunday’s Eucharist, all journeying to the great banquet of heaven. In our Communion today, we get a taste of what is to come, which will sustain us when we walk in the valley of darkness.
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