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

Brendan Hoban says that “The corona virus has robbed us of many things, including our freedom and almost our hope, but the experience of dealing with the death and funeral obsequies of those we love adds an unconscionable burden at the present time.”

How the Vatican News is reporting on the Synod: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/taglist.chiesa-e-religioni.Vaticano.sinodo.html The Journal – Irish online news forum: https://www.thejournal.ie/vatican-catholic-church-synod-second-and-final-session-6503289-Oct2024 NCR Online: https://www.ncronline.org/sections/vatican New Ways Ministry: Interesting articles. Note there might be…

Soline Humbert’s book launch on 1 October 2025 in Trinity College, Dublin. Speakers at the launch included Michael Kirwan SJ, Phil Dunne (MC), Ursula Halligan, Gerry O’Hanlon SJ and Soline…

‘Full many a flower is born to blush unseen……’   ‘The Cure at Troy’ (inspired by the Trojan War’s last days) Séamus Heaney “Believe that a further shore; Is reachable…

Brendan Hoban reviews Michael Paul Gallagher’s “Into Extra Time.”

‘Michael Paul worried that publishing such a personal narrative would seem to inflate his own experience or appear too self-centred and pious and he found writing a book that would be read only when he was dead a strange moment in his life. But he need not have worried. It is, I believe, the most important book he has written.’

Cardinal Mario Grech, Secretary General of the Synod, delivers the introductory address for the fourth session of the Consistory, inviting participants to view the implementation phase as a process of…