Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP leadership Weekly Sunday Homily

Brian Fahy offers a reflection for the Feast of the Sacred Heart.
“That statue [of the Sacred Heart] represents the human form of the Lord and it is in his body that he came to bring God’s love home to me. That body enjoyed the warmth of this world and endured its bitter cold.”

The National Catholic Reporter carries a robust editorial on Cardinal Ouellet’s response to Archbishop Viganò. It challenges the role of those U.S. catholics “whose primary ambition, it seems, is to convince the rest of us that the Christian Gospel was actually promulgated to justify the most extreme expressions of American-style capitalism.”
It concludes “The work ahead will require more than bluster and misappropriated slogans. It will require accessing the deepest levels of our sacramental tradition. It will require the imposition of unprecedented accountability from bishops. It will also require bishops with the will to confront the toughest questions about how the clerical culture arrived at this point.”

All the Palestinian churches have cancelled Christmas festivities this year, and one church in Bethlehem shares its pain through iconography. By Munjed Jadou Published On 7 Dec 20237 Dec 2023 Bethlehem,…

Tues Sept 12th – Western Christianity The Truth Overshadowed Western Christianity has evolved with many serious weaknesses. To name but a few: A focus on original sin at the expense…

An interesting report is carried in the National Catholic Reporter on who has voting rights at the Synod on youth.
It’s hard to believe no woman has the right to vote at the Synod on the 100th anniversary of the beginning of women achieving their right to vote in this part of the world.

Members of the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference gathered this week for their Spring 2026 General Meeting in Columba Centre of Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth.  The President of the Conference is…