Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP Leadership, Sunday homily

St Patrick’s Breastplate 1. I bind unto myself today the strong Name of the Trinity, by invocation of the same, the Three in One, and One in Three. 2. I…

Ahead of his upcoming Apostolic Journey to Türkiye, Pope Leo issues the Apostolic Letter ‘In unitate fidei’ on the 1700th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, broken down into 12…

At the world remembers the horrors and savagery of war this weekend Pádraig McCarthy draws our attention to an appeal made by Enda McDonagh of St. Patrick’s College Maynooth and Stanley Hauerwas of Duke Divinity School, North Carolina for an abolition of war.
The appeal is as valid now as it was when written in 2002

“The biggest source of stress for most humans is fear of the negative reactions of other people.” So declared neuropsychologist Ian Robertson in the Irish Times (April 15th 2025). He was…

Western People 24.10.23 According to the findings of  a recent Irish Times/Ipsos opinion poll 40 per cent of the Irish public will not pay their television licence fees this year….

Stray thoughts – A Reflection for the Season Paddy Kavanagh, wrote often and beautifully about the meaning of Christmas and the presence of God in our lives. For Kavanagh, childhood,…