Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership – Weekly Sunday video homily
Video homily for Sunday 10 Aug 2025 – ‘Modern Anxieties’ 19th Sunday Year C
Video homily for Sunday 10 Aug 2025 – ‘Modern Anxieties’ 19th Sunday Year C
The Divine in the Ordinary Amos and John Moriarty: John Moriarty came to mind last weekend as I listened to Amos. The maverick and the whimsical struck me. Somehow I…
The Hungry Grass! The Tolka and the Olympics: I went down to the Tolka very early this morning. The timing coincided with the moment of my sister Maura’s death, 23…
Should world news media be giving serious time these days to the possibility that the direction set by Pope Francis for Catholic Church reform – the programme he called ‘Synodality‘ – could be reversed by…
Brendan Hoban, in a recent Western People column, cast an eye over the opposition to Pope Francis. “When Benedict was pope, cardinals were falling over themselves hanging on to his every word, delivering reprimands to those who questioned papal tactics and giving sermonettes on loyalty and obedience to the pope. Now with a pope singing from a different hymn-sheet, for some of his cardinals loyalty and obedience seem to be less important.”
Sarah Mac Donald 24 June 2025, The Tablet Link to article: A leading woman theologian based in South Africa has called for the Church to go back to Pentecost, where the…
An old work song sets Chris McDonnell, writing in the Catholic Times, reflecting on the beauty and awesome power of water. His musings lead him to think “It is a time of aridity in the Church, so much has happened that has left us parched and thirsty, casting about, looking for a drink to satisfy our thirst.”