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

Angela Hanley Link: https://flashesinsight.com/2025/10/21/a-divine-calling-exposes-the-cost-of-clerical-disdain/ Recently, I was feeling exercised by many abusive behaviours within the Church. I am reading material connected with further study I have undertaken, and once again,…

Seamus Ahearne is wrestling with God, an angel or life itself.
Seamus can become distracted during the live streaming of Mass.
“The Virtual Mass is an Invitation into the life of a Community.  It is hospitable.  I should be gracious and respectful.  But the Sanctuary (of those churches) speaks aggressively.  I look around.  The contradictions of many Sanctuaries attacks my senses. The Re-Ordering that happened some fifty years ago shouts and sometimes even screams. There was the compromise effort. It wasn’t a re-ordering; it was a disordering. The old was kept. The new was added. It doesn’t work.  …  The utter clutter is confusing. Surely it is now time to get this right.”  

Western People 21.10.2025 American Catholicism can be a strange bird. A core belief is that Catholicism  dovetails nicely with the presumption that being rich is God’s blessing – with the…

The Holy Father, Pope Francis, has appointed the Most Reverend Dr Dermot Farrell, until now Bishop of Ossory, as Archbishop of Dublin. https://www.catholicbishops.ie/2020/12/29/pope-francis-appoints-bishop-dermot-farrell-as-the-new-archbishop-of-dublin/   Address of Bishop Dermot Farrell on…

The virtual launch of The Best Catholics in the World  by Derek Scally will take place Thursday March 25th at 7.00pm. Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/95914878888

Chris McDonnell writing in the Catholic Times reflects on these days of commemoration.