Gerry O’Connor, CSsR, ACP leadership Team, Weekly Sunday Homily, Week 2 (C)

The Report has been published. It is some 800 pages long. It covers England and the devolved Nations – Scotland, Wales and N Ireland. It cost circa £100 million. I…

75 years ago, on 27 January 1945, the Soviet Red Army arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The world was soon to learn the full extent of the true horror of Nazi Fascism.
Chris McDonnell, writing in the Catholic Times, remembers: “All too easily we play with words to justify events, tell stories where truth is the casualty leading only to a greater misfortune. Maybe we should pause awhile as the month-end days arrive to ask a question and seek forgiveness.”

Pope calls for day of prayer, fasting in solidarity with Lebanon One month after a massive explosion at a fertilizer storage facility tore through Beirut and reopened Lebanon’s old wounds,…

A cold coming we had of it TS Eliot Journey of the Magi Chris McDonnell MARCH 18 2022 “A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of…

Seamus Ahearne says of “Dancing to my death” by Daniel O’ Leary that “His honesty;  taunts, teases and torments us.   The final canvas from this artist, is a challenge to all of us in every aspect of ministry.”
….. “remind us of the delicacy and gentleness that is needed, as we meet with sickness, dying, funerals, bereavement and absences.   We have to be ever so careful with our Rituals and with our Religious demands.”