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 Nov 2026 – Thursday of Week 31
05 Nov 2026 – Thursday of Week 31 Optional Memorial: St Martin de Porres, 1579-1639, a Dominican lay brother who spent nights in prayer and penance, caring for the sick and poor. Renowned for his devotion to the Blessd Sacrament, 1st Reading: Philippians 3:3-8 We who are the real people of the circumcision, who worship...
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Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership Team weekly Sunday video homily
‘Attentiveness’ 32nd Sunday Year A – 8 Nov 2026 •
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Pope Leo receives Bob Dylan at the Vatican
The renowned American singer-songwriter and poet—a Nobel laureate in literature, currently touring Italy with a stop in Rome—was received this afternoon at the Apostolic Palace by Leo XIV. The Pontiff…
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We Are Church: Colm Holmes does the numbers on the recent National Synodal Assembly in Gormanston
I am a numbers person. When I walk into a meeting, I estimate the attendance: how many men – women; average age; racial mix, etc. So I looked at the…
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Jim Cogley’s Reflections: Tues 3rd Nov – Mon 9th Nov
WOOD YOU BELIEVE An Tobar Spiritans, Navan, Co Meath – RECOVERY FROM LOSS – Fri 6Nov. 7.30 – 9.30pm PERSONAL AND ANCESTRAL HEALING – Sat 7 Nov. 10am – 4pm…
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Paddy Ferry Remembers his friend Fr Brian Logue RIP
There has been great sadness both at home in Donegal and here in Scotland since the announcement by the Diocese of Motherwell last Sunday that Fr. Brian Logue had sadly…
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Presider’s Page for Sunday 1 November (All Saints Day)
Today and tomorrow we remember all the dead, those in heaven and those still be on the way there: God alone knows where each soul is. Today’s feast celebrates the saints in heaven, the holy men and women of every time and place: we hope some of our people are among them.
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Gerry O’Connor CSsR and ACP Leadership Team Sunday video homily
‘Keeping Vigil’ All Saints Day Year A – 1 Nov 2026
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Brendan Hoban: National Synodal Assembly, Gormanston, Co Meath
Western People 27. 10. 2026 Just over a week or so ago 300 delegates from all corners of Ireland gathered in the North West Hotel in Gormanston, County Meath for…
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Seán Ó Conaill: A Church that Proclaims the Gospel?
There is a crisis of generational transmission of the Catholic Christian faith in this era – a crisis that defies the catechetical models we have inherited. This frank admission by…
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Gerry O’Hanlon, SJ, on the Gormanston Synodal Assembly and ‘where to from here’…
Midwest Radio’s Faith Alive presenter Monica Morley spoke with Gerry O’Hanlon, SJ, in the wake of the Gormanston National Irish Synodal Assembly and issues raised at the meeting …