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

I warmly welcome today’s appointment by Pope Francis of Father Paul Connell as Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnois. Father Paul has the experience, the ability, the dedication and the faith…

Vatican News: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-05/pope-leo-xvi-peace-be-with-you-first-words.html Pope Leo XIV greets the faithful and the world invoking peace and pledging to work for a united Church faithful to Jesus and to the Gospel. Pope…

A scattering of cloud Sirens scream the background melody to a deadly dance of war. Rolling heaviness of smoke hides the broken remains of buildings shattered by explosion. Above, blue…

The Pope, the media, and the “normalization” of Trump As world media and leaders normalize US President Donald Trump’s erratic behavior, Pope Leo XIV must resist and keep his distance….

Brendan Hoban, writing in the Western People, again comments on the decreasing numbers of priests to serve in Ireland and the consequences that arise as a result for the remaining, mainly elderly, priests.
But he adds “my interest here is not in the priesthood issue.
Rather it’s on how the failure to address this issue by the leadership of our Church is impinging on the immediate victims (the present priests) caught in the slipstream of an on-going decision by the Irish bishops to continue to avoid ‘the elephant in the living room’.
“Are there not a few bishops who might do a Bishop Kräutler on it and have a chat with Pope Francis about the implications of his Christmas message – ‘the world has changed and so must the Church’?
What is it about that sentence that the Irish bishops don’t understand or refuse to accept, even though almost every Catholic in Ireland seems happy to acknowledge?”

Sun 16 Nov 2025 – 33rd Sunday of the Year (C) Theme: Haunting Paradox