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

Sunday 17th Sunday (Year C) 2025 Theme: When Empathy Dies. Link:

PILATE’S WIFE STANDS, HOLDING A SMALL, ORNAMENTAL DISH…  CALLING:          Zara?..    Zara!.. ENTER ZARA…          Coming, my lady… I was fetching water for your – WOMAN:    Such a commotion! ZARA: …

Some good news on the Lectionary translation front: 1. Publishing company Darton, Longman and Todd is producing a translation of the Lectionary which would avoid the non-inclusive English Standard Version…

Cherish family; Cherish your life: Hamish O’Flaherty spoke of his father. He then said that all of us should be grateful. That we should cherish our Families and Community. That…

Brendan Hoban in the current edition of Studies gives an honest assessment of the current state of the Church in Ireland and says “that ongoing change is now a permanent reality for the Catholic Church”. Brendan also posits a possible way forward based on the reality of the situation but reminds us that by rejecting the reality of change we are “by extension, rejecting the possibility of reshaping a different church.”
Our thanks to the Editor of Studies, Bruce Bradley SJ, for permission to publish this article on our website.

Christine Schenk writes in the National Catholic Reporter online: My ears perked up last week when I learned that Pope Francis had authorized a “visitation” at the Congregation for Divine…