A Voice to Reflect
The ACP is an association for Catholic Priests who wish to have a forum, and a voice to reflect on, discuss and comment on issues affecting the Irish Church and society today. We welcome any feedback you may have. If you are an existing member, you can pay your membership fee here. If you would like to support the ACP with a donation, you can do so here.
Today’s Homily Resources
05 Dec 2025 – Friday of Advent, Week 1
05 Dec 2025 – Friday of Advent, Week 1 1st Reading: Isaiah 29:17-24 A promise of good times, when deaf shall hear and blind shall see Shall not Lebanon in a very little while become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be regarded as a forest? On that day the deaf shall hear the...
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We Are Church Press Release: No Woman – No Church
Press Release 5 December 2025: No Woman – No Church We Are Church International is very disappointed that the ordination of Women Deacons has been rejected though not definitively by a commission…
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Tony Flannery: Responding to the Vatican statement on the ordination of women as deacons.
My initial reaction to the statement from the Vatican ruling out the possibility of women being eligible for the diaconate in the Catholic Church was one of great sadness. This…
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ACP Annual Membership is now €50
Following meetings of the Advisory Committee, ACP Leadership Team and a discussion at the recent ACP AGM, it has been agreed to increase annual membership of the ACP to €50….
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Peter W. Keenan: 60 years Since the End of Vatican 11…
December 8th will mark sixty years since the formal end to Vatican II, described by the late Fr Gabriel Daly (an Augustinian, like the new pope) as ‘a massive surgical operation carried out without…
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Vatican News: Petrocchi Commission says no to female diaconate, though judgment not definitive
Petrocchi Commission says no to female diaconate, though judgment not definitive A report presenting the results of the Commission’s work has been released. It rules out admitting women to the…
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Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP leadership – weekly Sunday video homily
‘Forerunners’ – 7 Dec 2025 – 2nd Sunday of Advent Year A 2025
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Diarmuid Ó Murchú – Root & Branch Zoom 4 Dec @ 8.00pm
REMINDER DIARMUID O’MURCHU Thursday 4th December 8pm London time Root & Branch are honoured to welcome Diarmuid O’Murchu to lead us through Reworking the Tradition:Implications for our Time Tradition is about…
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Séamus Ahearne: “A man must not deny his manifest abilities, For that is to evade his obligations.”
Louis Stevenson Scottish author. The Treasure of Franchard (1883) (Noted from The Times). FOOTBALL AND A PLAYWRIGHT: It was the London Times that has prompted me. (December 1st 2025). Those…
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ICRN Zoom- Celebrating and Sharing Good Practices in a Synodal Church
The final session in the series Celebrating and Sharing Good Practices in a Synodal Church Wednesday 3rd December 19.00-20.30 UTC A series developed by ICRN and CCRI, with the support…
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Presider’s Page for 7 December (Second Sunday of Advent A)
John the Baptist is the focus of the Gospel reading on the Second Sunday of Advent each year. His words challenge and inspire. We worship God who uses many messengers…