Gerry O’Connor, CSsR, ACP Leadership Team weekly homily

The danger of keeping silent Cardinal Mario Grech Homily at the opening mass of the conference on Synodality Campion Hall, 23 March 2022. There is ‘a time to keep silence,…

Western People 16.7.2024 Joe Biden, most recently the toast of Ballina and the great hope of the Democratic party in America in the upcoming presidential election, now finds himself in…

Thomas O’Loughlin, in a slightly longer version that was published in La Croix, looks at some objections raised to ordaining married men as presbyters.
“It has often been noted that while universities speak of ‘education’ (focusing on developing the individual’s talent), seminaries, along with military academies, speak of ‘formation’: learning to think with the group, act together, and became familiar with the group’s standard procedures and goals.”

Pope Francis wants to hear from YOU Our Church is in dire need of reform! Pope Francis is asking EVERYONE to speak out. At this ZOOM session we will break…

Jim McCormack CM asks whether in a rapidly changing world the sacraments as we celebrate them require a complete overhaul . Evolution and change over decades and centuries has always been part of the church, its ministry and its celebration of sacraments; “Gradually a system will develop which will satisfactorily cover all the appropriate bases.”
The challenge facing the “POWERS THAT BE” is in deciding to let go and let what is past ‘rest in peace’.

For Mayo GAA is about more than just sport        Western People 15.12.2020 As we slide towards the end of a nightmare year and long for the optimism (if not hope)…