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My reflections on the Synodal event in Kilkenny

My reflections on the Synodal Event in Kilkenny.

I have followed the Synodal process since the beginning, being very grateful to Francis for this initiative, and as a member of the ACP I did whatever I could to promote it. I know it has given hope to many of us who have longed and worked for reform in the Church.

II attended the Synodal meeting in Athlone three years ago, and I came away feeling excited and energised by what I heard there.

my article as published in the Rite and Reason column in the Irish Times online

In a recent interview with the UK Catholic weekly `The Tablet’, former bishop and head of the Episcopal Church in Scotland Richard Halloway spoke of his resignation after attending the Lambeth Conference of 1998. He is no longer even a practicing member of his Church having lost faith in the institution.

The Lambeth Conference is an event which happens in the worldwide Anglican Communion every 10 years, approximately. The 1998 Conference was particularly significant as it was hijacked on the question of homosexuality and whether people of that orientation could be ordained.

ACP Statement on Allianz

ACP Statement on Allianz

August 21 2025

21 August 2025

Association of Catholic Priests

Now that an impressive, possibly comprehensive, list of reputable and credible agencies is lining up to use the difficult word ‘genocide’ to describe what’s happening in Gaza, a new clarity has exposed the frightening possibility of an absolutely catastrophic ending to a tragedy that, despite Israel attempting to block media coverage, the truth is to be seen in the images of dying children on the television screens of the world.

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