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Alpha Ireland is excited to be starting the new year with intention. We want to support Catholic parishes in building disciples in 2022. Join us as we embark on REFOCUS – a…

A New Year Pastoral Reflection… It is book of the year time once again. Covid 19 afforded us plenty of time for picking up a book and there were some…

Vatican lists 22 Catholic missionaries killed in 2021 The Vatican’s Fides News Agency releases its annual list of Catholic missionaries who died a violent death in 2021, with the majority…

Give Thanks and Live In Hope God of the Seasons, and lover of the ages, master of the moment, You are beyond time yet within all time. We return to…

‘Hope is being able to see there is light despite the darkness.’ (Desmond Tutu)   Charlie as a visionary! Charvet shirts and Le Coq Hardi food are mentioned in dispatches…

The ACP Leadership would like to extend sincere sympathy to our colleague Mattie Long, PP, Louisburgh, on the death of his brother, Peter, RIP. The death has occurred of Peter…

Archbishop Desmond Tutu 7 Oct 1931 – 26 Dec 2021 From Anglican Communion News Service The Secretary General of the Anglican Communion has said Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who has died at…

The Most Rev Eamon Martin, the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, celebrates Mass to ring in Christmas at the Church of St James in Grange, Co. Louth with PP, Fr Malachy…

CHRISTMAS – NOLLAG – 2021 The ACP Leadership Team would like to thank you most sincerely for your ongoing support and wishes you a happy and peaceful Christmas. OICHE NOLLAG…

The Tablet reports: The newly appointed Archbishop of Tuam has said he is “very conscious” of the declining number of clergy in the Irish Church and the “dramatic decline” in…

A season to reawaken our childhood wonder Western People 21.12.2021 As we said last year, Christmas won’t be a ‘normal’ Christmas this year. As if we need to be reminded!…

 In a time of preparation: The Great Antiphons of Advent Chris McDonnell La Croix December 18 2021 The Season of Advent moves on apace, with the last full week arriving,…

Review of John Wijngaards’ book, Ten Commandments for Church Reform. Tony Flannery Book Review: Ten Commandments for Church Reform; Memoirs of a Catholic Priest, by John Wijngaards The sub-title of…

It’s back to the drawing board on Covid-19 Western people 14.12.2021 With COVID-19, as the Barbara Streisand song has it, ‘There are lessons to be learned’. The demon of self-centredness…

Paschal Sheehy, RTÉ Southern Editor reports: The Catholic Church in Ireland is facing huge change, as an effective pause on retirements in response to the pandemic comes to an end….

SOME TRADITIONS OF CHRISTMAS Christmas is Christmas because of one event – the Birth of Christ. There is a comprehensive list of Advent and Christmas customs in a booklet by…

America Magazine reports: Remembering Donald Cozzens, the priest who saw the sex abuse crisis coming—and worked to change the priesthood By Edward P. Hahnenberg I first met Donald Cozzens on…

A new insight into the life of John McGahern       Western People 7.12.21 A favourite writer – of mine as of so many others – is the late novelist, John…

A Tribute to Frank Callanan Frank Callanan, a highly regarded Senior Counsel, has died at the relatively young age of sixty-five. I had the privilege of knowing Frank, and of…

Wandering words around the Parish of Rivermount in Finglas I passed down by the Annunciation  today (Finglas West). Most of the Church is demolished. It is quite emotional to see…