Pope Francis announces Consistory for creation of new Cardinals

Tim Hazelwood is using the social distancing to reflect. “Now may be the opportunity for us to learn that we all are Church and that we must be Eucharist every day, of being thankful and believing that the risen Christ is with us.”

Regular ACP online contributor Paddy Ferry has recommended the following article by Mike Harding in the Irish Times.  Mike Harding is a folk musician, stand-up comic, broadcaster and poet who lives…

The editor of praytell blog writes about the forthcoming publication of the new Italian Missal.
“In September, 2017 Pope Francis issued Magnum principium, which called for translations which are both faithful to Latin and respectful of the characteristics of the receptor language……
More significantly, Pope Francis restored authority over translations to bishops’ conferences, as the Second Vatican Council had decreed, and rolled back the creeping centralism of previous decades at odds with the Council’s decisions.”

It seems the Italian bishops have taken their responsibility to heart and acted accordingly. We struggle on …..

Presiders’ pages for the Sundays of August have now been published on the ACP website

The Tablet reports: More bishops are pleading with their governments to give priority to ethically developed coronavirus vaccines, but many also are telling Catholics that not getting vaccinated is a…

Letter from Pope Francis to Parish Priests:   ‘Without priests, we will never be able to learn how to walk together and to set out on the path of synodality,…