Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership Team weekly Sunday video homily

If you read the conclusions of the many different Synodal meetings in various dioceses in Ireland and countries in Europe all speak of a change that may come in the…

Updated with a link to an interview of Tony Flannery by Monica Morley on Mid West Radio’s Faith Alive programme.

Tony Flannery posted a very interesting start of the year reflection on his personal blog.
It is nothing less than scandalous that Tony still is “withdrawn” from ministry and that this situation is allowed to continue by those in authority.
“I am inclined to believe that if there is to be any change in my situation it will happen this year. If not, then I will have to accept that things will remain as they are for whatever amount of life I have left. I can cope, I think, with not ministering as a priest any more. At my age I wouldn’t be doing much anyway. But living within an institution that acts in such a cavalier and unjust fashion, and is quite happy to sit with that injustice and do nothing about it, will be the difficult part.”

Jim McDermott writes in NCRONLINE: …For almost 30 years I’ve worked in the Catholic Church as a Jesuit seminarian and priest. It has been a tremendously rewarding life, filled with…

Chris McDonnell in the Catholic Times remembers Henri Nouwen whose ‘perceptive nature and ability to relate to those in distress demonstrated that he was more than an inspiring teacher and fine book writer.’

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