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A Note of Thanks for the Irish Association of Catholic Priests I wish to acknowledge my enormous gratitude to the Irish Association of Catholic Priests for endorsing my recent campaign…

The ACP Leadership fully endorses the statement of our (founding) member Seán McDonagh to reduce carbon emissions by 50% by 2030. The recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…

Note: A Personal & Ancestral Healing retreat will be given by Jim Cogley and Luba Rodzhuk in Mt St Annes Retreat Centre, Portarlington from Monday evening 15th Sept to Thurs…

An interesting address by Dermot Farrell, Bishop of Ossory, at the Conference with Laity and Priests in the Diocese of Ossory;
“Pope Francis is constantly putting his synodal vision of the church before us. The question he is asking, and that we should ask ourselves, is what kind of church is God calling the priests and all Catholics to be in the longer term – perhaps less self-referential and more a community of missionary disciples, less clerical and more synodical, “……

“We have fallen off a cliff edge in regard to vocations to the priesthood.   Many speak of a crisis in this regard…….This time of reduced numbers may well afford us an opportunity to be creative and to reimagine the institutional church.”

ACP Submission on Synodality – Synthesis – 29 May 2022 (See links below also for Association of Catholics in Ireland, We Are Church, DIocese of Elphin, Archdiocese of Dublin.) As…

‘Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, And through curtains, call on us?’ (John Donne) The music of nature: Does nature know it is Easter? There…