Gerry O’Connor, CSsR and ACP Leadership – weekly Sunday video homily

IN MEMORY OF PAT O’BRIEN: PASTOR, THEOLOGIAN, POET   There is heart missing from the world, As soft as God’s, Arms that drew waif and wretched home.   He was…

Was 25 December chosen to celebrate the birth of Jesus in order to “Christianise” a pagan festival, or could it be the other way around?
Pádraig McCarthy

The next meeting of our Edinburgh Newman Association is on Thursday evening, May 1st at 7.30pm. We are delighted to welcome to Edinburgh the eminent Irish scholar Rev. Dr. Kieran…

Maura O Shea writes of her perspective on the distancing, isolating, and close downs that have happened as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

William Crean, Bishop of Cloyne, speaking to the priests of that diocese told them that in his recent teaching Pope Francis emphasises ‘that an effective Christian communion requires that we embrace the concept of Synodality in the everyday life of the Church.  It is both the concept and reality of journeying with people.  It is to trust in the “sensus fidei” ‘.
Bishop Crean also reminded his audience of the good done in the past by religious and priests but also stated ‘The long lens of hindsight enables us to identify the poor pastoral practice of many of our predecessors.  Though well-intentioned a narrow moralistic focus made for a distorted and dysfunctional spiritual vision/understanding of Christian living.  We live with both the riches and the baggage of our past.’

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