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

Many dramatic media images with accompanying captions from events of this weekend coming not only from Gaza, the Holy Land, but the U.S. will shock people once again. The images…

“Once a computer was asked, “What is the truth?” It took a very long time before the reply came, “I will tell you a story…” ― Peter Brook, The Quality of Mercy…

Ireland has just 13 new priests this year. Can the Catholic Church save itself? With vocations at a record low, Ireland is relying on priests shipped in from abroad. In…

The ACP Leadership fully endorses the statement of our (founding) member Seán McDonagh to reduce carbon emissions by 50% by 2030. The recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…

Chris McDonnell writes “The choice of where to pray and when to pray has come down to us through subsequent years; for now, this Spring, we have limited options.” and he reminds us of Teilhard de Chardin who found himself in the Ordos Desert in China in 1923, unable to offer the Eucharist and wrote “Since once again, Lord I have neither bread, nor wine, nor altar,
I will raise myself beyond these symbols, up to the pure majesty of the real itself. I your priest will make the whole earth my altar and on it will offer you all the labours and sufferings of the world.’

by Christopher White Vatican Correspondent An African bishop took to the microphone to make the case for greater pastoral accompaniment of polygamous couples. A day later, a priest took to…