Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP Leadership, Sunday Homily – Holy Family

Note: A Wood You Believe retreat will be given by Jim Cogley and Luba Rodzhuk in Mt St Annes Retreat Centre Portarlington from Monday evening 15th Sept to Thurs 18th….

Article by Gerry O’Hanlon in the current issue of The Furrow. Link to The Furrow: https://thefurrow.ie/category/current-issue/ Last November (2022), in a wide-ranging interview with the Jesuit magazine America, Pope Francis…

Wise men – or fools?! I would see for myself – and about time, too!There, standing at the entrance, all quiet within.Family… Indeed, you might say, a holy family –the…

(The anniversary Mass is in St Joseph’s Redemptorist Church, Dundalk today.) His wife Leila flew into Belfast airport and was collected by Peter (Eddie’s brother) for this Mass and the…

Pope Francis has issued his much awaited response following the Synod on the Amazon. In his document ‘Beloved Amazon’ Francis calls for greater lay participation in the church and says the training of priests in the Amazon must be changed so they are better able to minister to indigenous peoples. “Every effort should be made” to give the faithful access to the Eucharist.
He also writes “This urgent need leads me to urge all bishops, especially those in Latin America, not only to promote prayer for priestly vocations, but also to be more generous in encouraging those who display a missionary vocation to opt for the Amazon region”
He does not deal specifically with the issues of the ordination of women as deacons or married men as priests.

Western People 6.8.2024 In the light of my reflections last week on the subject of priests’ changes, a reader both commends me for a column I wrote some months back…