Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP leadership – Epiphany video homily

Western People 3.2.2026 Around the time I was ordained in 1973 a major survey on religious practice in Ireland was published. Its main finding was that over 90% of Irish…

Easter Sunday Morning 2025 video homily. Title ‘Love Alive Forever’:

Two items:
1. Interview with Mattie Long by Monica Morley of Faith Alive on Mid West Radio about some of the issues that need to be considered before the re-opening of churches on 20 July.
2. Pádraig McCarthy draws our attention to a statement issued on Friday 01 May by the leaders of Churches in Ireland on church reopening.

An open door? Chris McDonnell CT January 29th 2021 I make no apology for returning to a subject that I have mentioned a number of times in recent months, our…

Western People, 15.11.2022 I will never forget it as long as I live. It was July 1, 2018. I was sitting in the conference room of the Twin Trees Hotel…

The National Catholic Reporter has a story on the annual assembly of the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests (AUSCP). It says the conference “heard calls for the church to focus on young Catholics, embrace the pastoral theology of Pope Francis, and affirm the Second Vatican Council’s theological spadework.
In both his opening evening welcome and homily during the June 27 Mass, Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, lauded the group, calling it ‘a wonderfully powerful and necessary voice’ and ‘voice of hope and joy.’ “