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

Will COP27 confront the current global climate crisis in Egypt? Fr. Seán McDonagh The first Conference of the Parties to the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took…

Friends, I have a little request. I know that so many of you faithfully pass on these postings with some having as many as a hundred recipients. The result is…

Western People 1.7.2025 There are times when I wonder – is it just me? Or maybe it’s that the world has lost its way, lost its connection to the essential…

An interesting address by Dermot Farrell, Bishop of Ossory, at the Conference with Laity and Priests in the Diocese of Ossory;
“Pope Francis is constantly putting his synodal vision of the church before us. The question he is asking, and that we should ask ourselves, is what kind of church is God calling the priests and all Catholics to be in the longer term – perhaps less self-referential and more a community of missionary disciples, less clerical and more synodical, “……

“We have fallen off a cliff edge in regard to vocations to the priesthood.   Many speak of a crisis in this regard…….This time of reduced numbers may well afford us an opportunity to be creative and to reimagine the institutional church.”

As Ireland faces a priest shortage, Kerry’s Diocese is empowering 25  lay ministers to take on key roles in parish life. Wed, 19 Mar, 2025 – 05:00 Mairead Sheehy As…

Paula Meehan was on the Brendan O’Connor programme (with Dearbhail) last Saturday, 9th August. She spoke of how language and poetry intrigues her. She spoke of her family history. She…