Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP leadership Weekly Sunday Homily

Clerical grapevine flourishes as bishops retire Western people 11th May 2021 A priest-friend remarked the other day that now that Catholics were disappearing from churches and priests were disappearing from…

Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP leadership Team, Weekly Sunday Homily – Epiphany 2025, 5 Jan – Core Values:

Link: https://www.catholicbishops.ie/2025/11/08/homily-of-br-richard-hendrick-for-the-requiem-mass-of-sr-stanislaus-kennedy My friends a truly great soul has passed from this world. We all know this. We would not be here today if we didn’t believe this. We gather…

Easter Communion Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) Pure fasted faces draw unto this feast:God comes all sweetness to your Lenten lips.You striped in secret with breath-taking whips,Those crooked rough-scored chequers may…

Brendan Hoban writes in the Western People in the wake of the recent Rome meeting on ‘The Protection of Minors in the Church’

“No one, reading what Francis has said, could find any kind of doublethink, evasion or prevarication. Or indeed any room for equivocation. He clearly means what he says and there’s a real sense that he is now giving the abuse of children (and how the Church has dealt with it in the past) his full and undivided attention. And, by announcing his ‘defrocking’ of former cardinal, a few days before the Rome conference he’s sent a clear signal of his intent.”

Western People 2.6.2026 A District Court Judge recently refused to convict 34 drivers caught speeding on a road approaching Monasterevin in Co Kildare. The judge, Andrew Cody, had expressed the…