Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP leadership Weekly Sunday Homily

As artificial intelligence and automation is increasingly taking over and replacing workers, Sean McDonagh alerts us to the fact that it is not just governments and trade unions that need to plan for the future.
“Most Churches have not considered how they will organise pastoral care if 40% of the people in the parish are not involved in paid employment, which seem to be where this technology is taking us.”

Western People 13.1.2026 I return again – unapologetically , I have to say – to what has become something of a personal obsession. Regular readers will recognise it because I…

Val Rogers draws attention to a short report by Brian Vale, in a bulletin from the Columbans in Australia,  about an Acculturation Programme Brian Vale and others provided for overseas priests who have come to serve in Australia recently.

Maire Lawless voices her concerns with the on-going difficulties people experience with the “new translation” of the missal.
“The issue is very serious because some deeply spiritual people …… have found this to be the last straw of a power driven authoritarian church which now touched directly on their highly valued prayer life.  As a result they no longer have attendance at Roman Catholic Eucharist as a part of their practice.”

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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? “