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

Pen Pal I lived a lot in my head, as a lad. Like, I was the last in the –  brothers and sisters well ahead of me.  They were stretching…

Refreshing the spirit: It is a luxury to be away. To be in the Algarve. To be with friends. To walk and to sit. To let the air speak to…

ACP has proved its worth during past decade             Western People October 6, 2020 It’s been a short ten years for the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP). In June 2010,…

Seamus Ahearne posts a mid-summer reflection. Among other issues he wonders if “When people look backwards and dump the blame for everything on the past – they simply are avoiding the responsibility of what is facing them at the moment……. It is so much easier to be apologetic about the past than it is to look at today.”
He worries for Pope Francis “Why wouldn’t people leave him alone to get on with his business in Rome? We need him so badly and yet we waste his energy and time.”
But this mid-summer Seamus tells us. “We can stand back and let all this seriousness and pomposity of life be smiled at.”

A weekday morning. We filed into the Refectory to breakfast. I took my place at table, reached for the napkin on my side plate – and froze. There, carefully concealed,…

Over 100 people tuned in last evening to the ACP zoom presentation by James Alison on the pastoral care of the LGBTQ+ community. The evening was hosted by ACP Leadership…