Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP Leadership, Weekly Sunday Homily – 8th Sunday 2025

A Witness for Justice Chris McDonnell April 1st, 2022 La Croix International Dan Berrigan’s signature on the flyleaf of ‘Tulips in the Prison Yard’.  Back at the end of April,…

Chris McDonnell in his Catholic Times column wonders how life might be changed when we eventually return to the light from the current darkness we find ourselves in.
“… the consequent life in faith of our Christian community will be fundamentally altered by our current experience.
We might resume familiar patterns but we will come to them as changed people. The shock of the new will be unavoidable. Faith will have been tested by experience and the well-worn path we have happily followed will be lost in the stones and bushes of the hedge-row. The real challenge will be to maintain our experience of inter-dependence, the realization that there is such a thing as Society, that we need each other”.

INTIMATIONS OF MORTALITY: We reached the airport. We arrived in Faro. Somehow we maneuvered the cases along the narrow aisle. Ryanair minimizes the space. We got down from the aircraft….

It has been said that politicians campaign in poetry and govern in prose. It is certainly true that extravagant promises and self-promoting claims are the order of the day. That…

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,…

Catholics demand to be treated as adults                       Western People 6.4.2021 The news last week that the lockdown – despite a few cosmetic adjustments to ease the disappointment – would continue…