Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership – weekly Sunday video homily
Sunday 24 Aug 2025 – 21st Sunday Year C 2025 – Theme – ‘Alignment’
Sunday 24 Aug 2025 – 21st Sunday Year C 2025 – Theme – ‘Alignment’
Irish Times Rite and Reason August 14, 2018 Pope is bringing his revolution to Ireland Brendan Hoban Unlike Pope John Paul in 1979 who, with his training as…
Pádraig McCarthy offers practical suggestions for an alternative style of Holy Week from the norm.
Our Synod Symposium on 15 November 2024 had 4 excellent speakers: They made some interesting points: * Cynical exercise poorly conceived * Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas * What is…
‘Beautiful Dreamer awake unto me.’ Put on a mask going into the Bank! I have been to the Bank. Isn’t it amusing that we have to wear a mask…
Irish Bishops Conference: His Holiness Pope Francis has accepted the request for retirement of Bishop Brendan Kelly, heretofore Bishop of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Apostolic Administrator of Kilfenora. Today, Pope Francis…
In his weekly Western People column Brendan Hoban discusses the RTE ‘Meaning of Life’ programme following a recent edition featuring Stephen Fry.
Brendan marvels that ‘in a country immersed in religion, it’s quite extraordinary how few seem to have given little more than a passing thought to the meaning of their lives – and how many still imagine that God is some version of Fry’s caricature, notwithstanding huge unanswered (and probably unanswerable) questions about the problem of evil and suffering in the world.’