Gerry O’Connor, CSsR and ACP Leadership Team, weekly Sunday video homily
‘Spreading’ Palm Sunday Year A – 29 March 2026
‘Spreading’ Palm Sunday Year A – 29 March 2026
Brendan Hoban writing in the Western People argues that as long as Bishops don’t listen to people and priests “we (as church) relegate ourselves to the sidelines because we present ourselves as controlling and demanding, refusing to listen or engage with the issue.”
Brendan also suggests that there is a crying need for competent church people to be used to communicate effectively with media and public. “Not every bishop is blessed with the ability to think on his feet or to manage the combination of words that does justice to what he wants to say.”
Seán McDonagh writes: A Powerpoint on biodiversity during COP15 which is taking place in Canada during the next two weeks. We are now witnessing the 6th largest extinction of life…
The next meeting of our Edinburgh Newman Association is on Monday evening next, April 15th at 7.30pm at our usual venue, Mayfield/Salisbury Church of Scotland, 18 West Mayield, Edinburgh EH9…
Please register for this IMPORTANT ZOOM presentation on 5 February 2026 A Concrete Example of Synodality: GERMAN SYNODAL CONFERENCE Dr. Martin Schockenhoff In Germany the Bishops and Laity have agreed to…
James F. Keenan March 12, 2024 America Last month in Outreach, a L.G.B.T.Q. Catholic resource sponsored by America Media, I was invited to consider what we as a church might do…
Roy Donovan reminds us that it was “the women who stood at the foot of the Cross when the men had fled”. He asks, “Pope Francis spoke eloquently about separating colonialism from the spread of the Good News at the pan-Amazon synod. What about separating male culture from the spread of the Good News?”