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, the Bishop/Priest relationship – Difficulties in a Changing Church…
Columban’s Day Sermon Good evening and thank you for inviting me here to preach at this Columban service in Bangor Abbey. As a Columban missionary, it is a great privilege…
Interesting article in The Irish Times by Áine Ryan last Sat, 25 Feb 2023. Since our offshore islands are usually seen as the last bastions of traditional life, you don’t…
Tues 16th Jan – Exploring Causes of Depression Because depression is such a widespread phenomenon we return again to this topic since it merits much wider exploration. So many who…
I warmly welcome today’s appointment by Pope Francis of Father Paul Connell as Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnois. Father Paul has the experience, the ability, the dedication and the faith…
Brendan Hoban, writing in the Western People, looks at the continuing fall out from the recent referendum on the eighth amendment and expresses concern at a ‘moral triumphalism and political totalitarianism (that) has no place in public discourse.’
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“if this is the new Ireland then God help those who disagree with the emerging consensus. It won’t hold a candle to the control and oppressiveness of the Catholic past, and that’s saying something.”
I return this Easter (2024) to an issue that refuses to hide its face, the continuing fall in the number of priests serving our parishes. We should be considering this…
