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The ACP Leadership team would like to express sympathy to our colleague, Tim Hazelwood, on the death of his brother Liam, RIP. Condolences also to Tim’s mother, Mary, and siblings…

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The ACP is upgrading the website and the ‘swap over’ to the new site will start Tues 10 May. The actual process of swapping over from the old site to…

Terrance Klein writing in America Magazine: A Reflection for the Fourth Sunday of Easter Readings: Acts 13:14, 43-52 Revelation 7:9, 14b-17 John 10:27-30 Before the Reformation, even the Catholic Church did…

Pope Francis said he has asked for a meeting in Moscow to help bring about an end to the war and warned that Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, a key backer…

Míle buíochas to all in Acton/BV

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John Wijngaards is founder of the UK-based Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research, writing in the Irish Times: Pope Francis has unleashed a synodal process of consultations in the Catholic Church. It offers…

Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven & Saint Nicholas, Galway Homily On the cover of your booklets, you will see that we have gathered here this afternoon for my…

RTÉ reports: The Papal Nuncio is ending his six-year mission to Ireland following an announcement by the Vatican. Pope Francis has stated that Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okolo Martin will take…

Faith is a hinterland of wonder Spring and Easter (1) Easter and nature coordinate and complement each other beautifully. (In this part of the world). The flourishing of Spring. The…

At a recent symposium on synodality in Oxford University, a 70-year-old man exclaimed enthusiastically, “It’s the first time in my [church] life that I’ve been asked for my opinion!” So…

The ACI invites you to Zoom Synodal Gathering Thursday 5th May, at 8.00 p.m. “The synodal process is a time for speech. A time to let the voice of the…

  A time of greeting, a time of wonder Chris McDonnell April 22.2022 The days that follow Easter and the Resurrection share a common characteristic, they are days of wonder…

Integrity is at the heart of good leadership Western People 19.4.22   No one can be in any doubt but that the Tony Holohan secondment (or appointment) to Trinity College…

Monsignor John Kennedy, a priest of the Archdiocese of Dublin has been appointed by Pope Francis as one of two Secretaries to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith….

This article was written for The Irish Mail on Sunday by Bishop Paul Dempsey, Bishop of Achonry. It is reprinted with his kind permission. The Diocese of Achonry has twenty-three…

‘Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, And through curtains, call on us?’ (John Donne) The music of nature: Does nature know it is Easter? There…

We Are Church Zoom events: WAC Synod ZOOM Listening Session: Wednesday 20.April 2022 7.30pm Our Church is in need of reform! At this session all issues are on the table….

He is Risen! Happy Easter.   The One Green, blue, yellow and red- God is down in the swamps and marshes Sensational as April and almost incred- ible the flowering…