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

Brendan Hoban writing in the Western People suggests that “Part of the problem we have in the Irish Catholic Church is that little respect was given to the critical voices that time and again warned against the icebergs stalking our voyage. A lack of vision, a failure in leadership and an inability to cope with the complexities of a changing world meant that the uncritical voices, especially those that echoed official thinking, were given an inordinate influence in the last few decades. And anyone who didn’t subscribe to the old conservatism was taken out in some shape or form.”

Brendan Hoban, in his Western People column, questions what has effectively become an institutionalised gambling culture in Ireland.

A new paper by the Iona Institute has highlighted Ireland’s marriage and birth rates – On The Wrong Course – birth, marriage and family trends in Ireland Link to paper:…

Here are some sentences taken from a poetic image-filled November-Advent reflection from the Sojourners website, by Catherine Woodiwiss.
Padraig McCarthy

Western People 26.11.24 Last year when President Joe Biden visited Ballina and, from outside St Muredach’s Cathedral, addressed thousands of people encircled at every possible vantage-point around the loop of…

Taken from  https://www.tonyflannery.com/blog/ My initial thoughts on the new appointment to head of Dublin Archdiocese. It is no surprise to me, or, I’m sure to most people, that the choice…