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“Either we stop it or it stops us.” COP26: The two young lassies were noisy. Vinisha Umashankar and Greta Thunberg. Vinisha said: “We’ll build the future, even if you are…

Vatican News reports: Pope Francis appoints Franciscan Sr. Raffaella Petrini the new Secretary General of the Governorate of Vatican City State. He also appoints as Deputy Secretary-General Italian lawyer Giuseppe…

 ACP AGM 2021  Wed 10th November 2.00-5.00pm Radisson Blu Hotel, Athlone   Special Guest: Kieran O’Mahony OSA speaking about the Synodal Pathway and lay leaders on the Killala experience. Also,…

Catholics and COP26: Artists, Activists and Academics on Climate Justice and the Integrity of Creation is a series of five live zoom events and two vodcasts organised by Theology and…

Ten Commandments for Church Reform: Memoir of a Catholic Priest  John Wijngaards, Acadian House, September 2021 Dr John Wijngaards, an 86 year Catholic priest and renowned theologian, is launching his…

ROOT & BRANCH inclusive lay-led Synod A grassroots forum for those working for an inclusive, just & welcoming Church. YOU’RE WARMLY INVITED TO OUR OPEN FORUM EUROPE & AMERICAS Sunday 14th November, 16.00…

Michael Maginn writes: Leaving aside much of the dramatic, colourful and unhelpful imagery that has come down to us concerning Purgatory, the essential teaching rings true: our sense of incompleteness,…

Association of Catholic Priests Statement Monday 1st November 2021 As an association founded to represent, and if needs be to defend, our fellow-priests, the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) is…

In search of God in Sally Rooney’s novels Western People 26.10.2021   The novelist, Sally Rooney, Castlebar native and literary sensation of the last few years, is taking the publishing…

New World In The Morning  (Roger Whitaker)  The Dying Swan (ballet)! It happened a week ago. The Spire of the Annunciation Church in Finglas West, Dublin, came down. We saw…

Thoughts on the Synodal Pathway by Tony Flannery, CSsR  Taken from Tony Flannery’s Blog: http://www.tonyflannery.com/can-the-national-synod-of-the-irish-church-be-a-success/ Synods and synodality are very much in the news in Catholic Church circles at the…

The UK will host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow on 31 October – 12 November 2021. The COP26 summit will bring parties together to…

Does this methodology (see below, taken from ‘The Problem Remains’ – Sex abuse and the French Catholic Church by Massimo Faggioli) not suggest that a bold creative approach is needed in preparation…

Further to her post on this site, On Consulting the Faithful (15th September), Soline Humbert was asked to expand on it  in the context of the synodal path we are…

Listening to LGBTQ Catholics Kate Moynihan Zoom Thursday 28th October at 8.00 p.m. Pope Francis is inviting Catholics on the margins to voice their dreams, ideas and concerns in preparation…

It’s time we stood up to the anti-vaxxers.                   Western People 19.10.2021 What, I wonder, will be the response to Ireland’s latest footballing…

Vatican News reports: The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has published a decree implementing Pope Francis’ motu proprio “Magnum principium,” concerning the respective competencies of the…

The ACP continues to engage with priests associations around the world that share our goals. Recently, Fr Dan Walsh from the Association of United States Catholic Priests (AUSCP) was in…

‘And will the flowers die? And will people die?’ (Kennelly) Máire Mhac an tSaoi: Máire Mhac an tSaoi has died. She was 99. Her history evokes the past. Even 1916….

From Joe Mulvaney CLERICAL SUPPRESSION OF WOMEN  Sadly, the patriarchal Roman Catholic Institution will remain abusive, deficient and dysfunctional until the clerical suppression of women is ended. Pope Francis is…