Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership Team weekly Sunday video homily
Sunday 23 Nov 2025 – 34th Sunday of the Year
Theme: Recognition
Sunday 23 Nov 2025 – 34th Sunday of the Year
Theme: Recognition
Dublin Diocese issued a Press Release on Tuesday 03 December about the beginning of a process of significant change in Sacramental Preparation.
The Gospel story of the Pharisee and the tax collector is read on this year’s Mission Sunday. Those who are humble before God make the best witnesses to the Gospel:…
John (Hans) Wijngaards, (30 September 1935 – 2 January 2025) Check link for tribute: https://mailchi.mp/9e8bf7cb69d8/sad-news?e=3c5cccd6ee
Brendan Hoban, in the Western People, reflecting on current controversies says that what really released the dam of anger and emotion was the revelation of clerical sexual abuse and the failure of Church authorities to understand its enormity and to do something about it. The revelations on clerical sexual abuse gave people the freedom to surface and to name other resentments.
Magisterium AI, a ‘digestive’ online processor of church documents, promises to be a useful, if not infallible, point of reference for those seeking clarity on official Catholic church teaching. When…
Chris McDonnell, writing recently in the Catholic Times, said of the U.S. mid term elections, “What of the future? How will the Democracy of Immigrants that forms the United States rebuild trust and civility, what is required of each and every citizen?”
We wonder when we hear a President speak of ‘beautiful barbed wire’ being strung out along a border.
Chris also adds “Just as there is this fracture in our public life, for not only the US but other Western Democracies are also under threat, so too within our Christian community are fault lines and tensions apparent.”