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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?…

  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…

From the Irish Times: President leads tributes to nun, educator, feminist and human-rights activist. Margaret MacCurtain May 17th, 1929-October 5th, 2020 The distinguished historian, educator, feminist and human-rights activist, Dr Margaret…

America magazine posted this link to Pádraig Ó Tuama’s podcast. Our lives are shaped by language, even if most of us are not poets. But it helps to talk to one…

America Magazine reports the following: (AM) Editor’s note: As part of our larger coverage of “Fratelli Tutti,” the latest encyclical letter from Pope Francis, America asked a number of theologians and…

Teaching is a vocation Chris McDonnell CT October 09 2020 There are over forty occasions in the four Gospels where Jesus is referred to as teacher, a title of some…

Pope Francis releases a video message accompanying his prayer intention for October, the missionary month, in which he calls for the promotion of greater integration of the lay faithful, especially…

Where is God during Covid-19? Cogar-Mogar: The sun is reluctant and grumpy, as it gets out of bed these mornings. It knows it has to get up at some stage,…

ACP has proved its worth during past decade             Western People October 6, 2020 It’s been a short ten years for the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP). In June 2010,…