Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership Team weekly Sunday video homily
‘Beneath the Surface’ 6th Sunday Easter Year A – 10 May 2026
‘Beneath the Surface’ 6th Sunday Easter Year A – 10 May 2026
‘Playing God’ traces the history of Catholic conservatism gone extreme BY TOM ROBERTS This is the link to the NCR Online article (which is reprinted below): https://www.ncronline.org/culture/book-reviews/playing-god-traces-history-catholic-conservatism-gone-extreme A disturbing symbiosis…
NEW LEAF A priest from the Redemp’trists gave us the School Retreat at the beginning of Lent. Hell or Heaven for starters, then the limitless mercy of God… Frank Muldoon…
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?”
Seamus Ahearne was somewhat redundant on Sunday morning. “I read the Morning Prayer very slowly. I had to do it out-loud. Otherwise, it was in danger of being rushed thoughtlessly. And my mind retreated to the past. The long distant past.”
A hundred days into his pontificate, Leo XIV has not put a foot wrong. Shunning controversy, he has silenced those itching for a fight, reducing them to the desperate stratagem of posting…
ACP member and Dublin priest Pádraig McCarthy writes: Now that our second Covid Easter week has launched, I’d like to suggest an inspiring reflection on the spirituality and significance of…