Gerry O’Connor, CSsR and ACP Leadership – weekly homily, Sunday 9 Feb 2025

An edited version of this article by Peter Stanford about the bishops’ meeting in Rome to discuss clerical sexual abuse appeared recently in The Observer.
“It is an appalling moral failure and needs to end now, but that will involve rethinking an entire approach to sexuality in Catholicism that is peculiar, punitive and often plain perverse. The Jesus of the gospels had almost no interest is such matters. Why does the Church leadership? “

Executive Summary The Final Report of Group 5 is divided into three parts. The first part recounts the history of Group 5 of the Synod on Synodality and outlines the historical and methodological…

Fr Gerry O’Hanlon S.J. will give a talk on his recent book, 
The Quiet Revolution of Pope Francis: A Synodal Catholic Church in Ireland? 
in the Ó Fiaich Library, Moy Road, Armagh,‪ on Saturday, 19 January 2019, from 10.00 am to 1.00 pm.

Pope Leo XIV convenes his first Consistory of Cardinals, which will take place on January 7-8 and will be marked by prayer, support, and counsel for the Pope. Vatican News…

The Principles for a Charter of fundamental rights and responsibilities for Catholics were articulated by the Ordinary Synod of Bishops in 1971. Its final document was entitled “Justice in the World.”  
The International Church Reform Network (ICRN) has been working on a modern version of these Fundamental Rights.

Pope Leo XIV calls upon billions of people around the world to engage in a shared commitment against the “madness of war,” those who, in this dramatic hour of history,…