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

Western People 1.8.2023 There was a famous parish once with a famous priest. A hands-on man, he ticked all the boxes of expectation that his parishioners could possibly have hoped…

Review by Joseph S. O’Leary, who has lived in Japan since 1983. He taught in Sophia University and was a research professor in Nanzan University. Publications include Conventional and Ultimate…

Press Release 5 December 2025:        No Woman – No Church We Are Church International is very disappointed that the ordination of Women Deacons has been rejected though not definitively by a commission…

Pope Francis has updated Canon Law to criminalise sexual abuse: Thanks to Pádraig McCarthy (§1 below) for the link to the text of the Revised Book VI of the Code…

Celebrating and Sharing Good Practices in a Synodal Church Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025:  19.00-20.30 UTC/GMT The International Church Reform Network [ICRN] is working with CCRI and partners to present a…

Seamus Ahearne shares his thoughts with us following a recent wedding.
In his usual style he recommends a huge dose of E for us: ‘Our church has to be expansive and explosive and exciting and exhilarating’.
‘I also recalled Stephen Hawkins who said that Church folk damage God – “your God is too small.”
”Why do they ‘belittle God’? Isn’t faith about ‘being great’? I don’t recognise the God of little men/women who has to be protected. A God that has to be protected from Tony Flannery? What kind of unreal God is this? It is not the God I know or the Church I know. ‘:
‘Never be-little; be great! That is the banner over all of us.’