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

Fr Bernárd Lynch was accused by person/persons unknown just as he was to receive an Award in 2019 from President Michael Higgins. Bernárd Lynch has not been charged with any…

Mick Forgey reports in the National Catholic Reporter on Tony Flannery’ s involvement in the National Conference of the reform movement ‘Call to Action’ in Memphis, Tenn.

Thomas Reese SJ in the National Catholic Reporter gives an insight into the significance of the recent appointments of ten new Cardinal electors by Pope Francis.

IN MEMORY OF PAT O’BRIEN: PASTOR, THEOLOGIAN, POET   There is heart missing from the world, As soft as God’s, Arms that drew waif and wretched home.   He was…

Tues 24th June – Burnout The occupational hazard in my profession is paradoxically what the role of a priest is supposed to be all about. At ordination part of the…

Brendan Hoban, in the Western People, writes about the absence of Holy Week Ceremonies this year.
“Church leaders are caught between their responsibility to give clear and appropriate guidance and the felt need of the people to celebrate the key events of the first Easter. But their (and our) moral responsibility is clear. The bottom line is that no compromise that might endanger health and life is acceptable.”