Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership – Weekly Sunday Homily: Palm Sunday

Thomas O’Loughlin, in a slightly longer version that was published in La Croix, looks at some objections raised to ordaining married men as presbyters.
“It has often been noted that while universities speak of ‘education’ (focusing on developing the individual’s talent), seminaries, along with military academies, speak of ‘formation’: learning to think with the group, act together, and became familiar with the group’s standard procedures and goals.”

Seamus Ahearne reviews Forbidden: Fruit Life and Catholicism in Contemporary Ireland
by Declan Henry.
“I think his Book could be a serious challenge for Reflection during these times. As a Church, we have much to do. to face a new world and to find a new place in that world.”

Regular ACP online contributor Paddy Ferry has recommended the following article by Mike Harding in the Irish Times.  Mike Harding is a folk musician, stand-up comic, broadcaster and poet who lives…

By Kevin Hargaden: Migration and Irish identity—in the era of Trump deportations Just about no one in Ireland would say that Irish citizens living in the U.S. are being treated…

We cannot be neutral in this outrageous war                      Western People 22.3.2022   Atrocity after atrocity after atrocity. Just when it appears as if there’s a smidgeon of hope in the…

Pope Francis said he has asked for a meeting in Moscow to help bring about an end to the war and warned that Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, a key backer…