Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership: Weekly Sunday Sermon – 1st Sunday Lent

“the Congregation for Divine Worship try to micro-manage the Church around the world and often fail to understand or misinterpret local custom and tradition.”
Brendan Hoban in the Western People continues to wonder how curial officals fail to see it is their own institutions that are in need of reform instead of tinkering with what is actually still working in the church.

Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.” It was to this teaching…

We have, over many centuries, held islands in a certain awe, places set apart, cut off, inaccessible, remote. Lindisfarne, or to use its familiar name in the North East of…

The Association of Catholic Priests offers support to priests when faced with difficulties and we also look at Church policies and how them impact the lives and wellbeing of priests…

Towards a Synodal Pathway for the Catholic Church in Ireland Nicola Brady Zoom Thursday February 24th, 2022 At 8.00 pm Dr Nicola Brady is the Chair of the Steering Committee for Ireland’s…

Sarah Mac Donald writes in the National Catholic Reporter about how research of Artifacts show that early church women served as clergy.
“New research recently unveiled in Rome suggests women had a greater role in the early church’s ministries and liturgies than previously thought and were present at church altars as deacons, priests and even bishops.
Ally Kateusz, research associate at the Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research, presented her findings July 2 to the International Society of Biblical Literature, drawing on iconography from ancient Christian art.”