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

Towards a Synodal Irish Church Address of Cardinal Mario Grech to the Bishops of Ireland February 3, 2021 Link below: http://www.synod.va/content/synod/en/news/towards-a-synodal-irish-church.html Letter in full: Dear brothers, It is a privilege…

Paddy Ferry has forwarded the following: Bishops’ Conference of Scotland The Catholic Church in Scotland has submitted its response to the Vatican following the call from Pope Francis in 2021…

The Irish Child & Family Institute (ICFI) was established in 2006 with the goal of providing independent child welfare and psycho-social services to a variety of statutory and non- statutory…

Chris McDonnell writes “The choice of where to pray and when to pray has come down to us through subsequent years; for now, this Spring, we have limited options.” and he reminds us of Teilhard de Chardin who found himself in the Ordos Desert in China in 1923, unable to offer the Eucharist and wrote “Since once again, Lord I have neither bread, nor wine, nor altar,
I will raise myself beyond these symbols, up to the pure majesty of the real itself. I your priest will make the whole earth my altar and on it will offer you all the labours and sufferings of the world.’

‘I’m jealous of the angels around the throne tonight.’ Gangland: Finglas was on the News. Local gangs were misbehaving badly. I checked on some of the victims. Then I began…

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…