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

The General Secretariat of the Synod publishes the first part of the Final Report of Study Group No.7, regarding criteria for selecting candidates for the episcopate, and the Report of…

WE ARE GOD’S WORK OF ART – EPH 2:10 George Bernard Shaw (1) There was a gale. The rain lashed down. The walking continued. The hat somehow stayed on. And…

Bishops express thanks for over 550 submissions received for Synodal Pathway During their 2020 Winter General Meeting, bishops decided to proceed along a Synodal Pathway and, since then, have been…

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.”

Reflection by Bishop Paul Dempsey to mark Pope Francis’ ‘Amoris Laetitia Family Year’ 26. MAR, 2021 On 19 March 2021, the Feast of Saint Joseph, the Church celebrated five years…