Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership Team: Sunday Homily

Christa Pongratz-Lippitt reports in La Croix International on a press conference given by Father Helmut Schüller of Austria where he said that the sex abuse crisis shows an urgent need to ‘desacralize’ the Catholic priesthood and empower the laity. Time, he warned “is running out for the Church to make major structural changes if its leaders want to save it from collapse.”

Have we some keys to the discussion at Caesarea Philippi?
Pádraig McCarthy

Dear Friends, Just a brief email today to send you the latest Synodal Sunday video reflection, which has been prepared by Fr Declan Hurley. Declan is the Joint Chairperson of…

Much ado about nothing The Fox and the Heron: I sometimes meet two herons at the Tolka River in the mornings. They are never together and maintain an appropriate distance…

This Advent Coming Chris McDonnell CT In the Northern hemisphere, the weeks before Christmas are often dark and dank, “the ways deep and the weather sharp, the very dead of…

Chris McDonnell thinks about one thing that has been missed in recent weeks – “the exchange of touch between each other in recent weeks for without words our hands speak of our emotions, our cares and our suffering.”
“It is with our hands that we take and give, share and consume. What could be more practical than we receive the gift of the Christ in the same manner?”