Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP leadership Weekly Homily – Sunday 16 Feb 2025

We are Church are presenting a talk by Fr Diarmaid Ó Murchu in an on-line Zoom event on Monday 20 April, 7.30 to 9.00 p.m..

With freedom of the press and the right to free speech very much in the news Brendan Hoban questions, in his weekly column in the Western People, ‘why I should continue to buy or even to read a paper that so consistently belittles my religion.’

Western People 2.7.2024 Three weeks ago in this space I wrote about the organised attempt by extreme traditionalists in the Catholic Church to undermine the reforms that Pope Francis is…

TODAY!!! ACP AGM Wed 6 Nov 2024 2.00-5.00pm Radisson Hotel, Athlone. Speakers: Michael Conway,  Gerry O’Hanlon, Tim Hazelwood on Care of Priests and Synodality Tim Hazelwood: Care of Priests; Data…

NMH row is a clash between two extremes      Western People 31.5.2022 Irish nuns (or more accurately, Irish religious sisters) must be the most dumped upon constituency in Ireland. No matter…

Sarah Mac Donald writes in the National Catholic Reporter about how research of Artifacts show that early church women served as clergy.
“New research recently unveiled in Rome suggests women had a greater role in the early church’s ministries and liturgies than previously thought and were present at church altars as deacons, priests and even bishops.
Ally Kateusz, research associate at the Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research, presented her findings July 2 to the International Society of Biblical Literature, drawing on iconography from ancient Christian art.”