Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP leadership – Christmas Day video homily

Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP Leadership team in his weekly video homily. This Sunday is the 25th Sunday of the Year. The theme is Humility. Link to homily:

The first woman to appear in John’s Gospel makes her entry so modestly and unassumingly that she might seem insignificant: “On the third day there was a wedding in Cana…

Taken from an article by Christopher Lamb in The Tablet: Pope Francis has called for the Church in Italy to hold a national synod, a move that will put pressure on…

Brendan Hoban in the current edition of Studies gives an honest assessment of the current state of the Church in Ireland and says “that ongoing change is now a permanent reality for the Catholic Church”. Brendan also posits a possible way forward based on the reality of the situation but reminds us that by rejecting the reality of change we are “by extension, rejecting the possibility of reshaping a different church.”
Our thanks to the Editor of Studies, Bruce Bradley SJ, for permission to publish this article on our website.

Brendan Hoban offers his thoughts, in his weekly Western People column, on Mary Kenny’s ‘Something of Myself and Others’. He says it is an entertaining and worthwhile read, surely the best insight there is into the life of the carer. Kenny dissects compellingly, in this brutally honest memoir, the lived experience of a carer’s life.

Artificial Intelligence and Medicine Seán McDonagh In 2020, with every country in the world attempting to fight against Covid-19, researchers are using artificial intelligence (AI) to understand the coronavirus more…