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

Article from ACI website  What is it to be Holy? What exactly is holiness? Will we know it when we see it? Is it attainable by anyone, or only by those who…

Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.” It was to this teaching…

Fr Peter Daly wrote recently in the National Catholic Reporter about problems he sees that arise as a result of the church’s position on mandatory celibacy for priests of the Latin Rite.

“Celibacy is not essential to Catholic priesthood. It is only mandated in two of the 24 “autonomous churches” in communion with Rome; the Latin Rite and the Ethiopian Rite….. At least seven popes were married…..There was even a father and son pope combination, Pope Hormisdas (514-523) who was father to Pope Silverius, (536-537)…..Today we have many married priests in the Roman (Latin) Rite who have come to us from the Anglican or Lutheran traditions. ….. If they can be married, why not others?
The practice and teaching of the church on priestly celibacy has been inconsistent and incoherent. But, most important of all, Jesus did not mandate celibacy.” 

Western People 18.6.2024   In the end the results of the local and European elections were all about trust. Trust ­– and the lack of it. A sub-text is how sophisticated Irish…

Seán Walsh writes: A short scene from my new drama, Pilate under Pressure, a two hander in several scenes, a rehearsed reading open to the public on Tuesday, March 26,…

Nov 12 A recent talk by a Canon Lawyer on the subject of the rights of priests in their relationship with Church authorities, whether vested in bishops, religious superiors or…