Kevin Myers on Church & State in Ireland today
“Any senator or TD who tried to raise the issue of clerical child abuse in the Dail would have been shouted down”. So wrote Kevin Myers in the Irish Independent of 14 February 2012.
Year: 2012
PRIME TIME INVESTIGATES GETS AWARD!!
Would you believe it? Prime Time Investigates gets an award tonight. I have no doubt that, if we hadn’t been in the position to challenge them through the courts, the…
Announcement of Assembly
The ACP, in conjunction with some others, are organising a gathering, which we are calling “Towards an Assembly of the Irish Catholic Church”. It will take place on Monday, May…
Email received re New Missal
This is an interesting email that one of our members got from a parishioner in relation to the new responses at Mass. Maybe it is something we priests might keep in mind.
5th Sunday Ordinary Time – Prayer of the Faithful etc
As we come together for worship, each of us brings worries, anxieties and fears. We gather them all together and entrust them to the one who heals his suffering people.
Clogher ACP meeting: Clones, 25 Jan 2012
A meeting of Clogher ACP took place in Clones Co. Monaghan on January 25th 2012. Twenty seven Priests attended, including Bishop Liam, two priests from Armagh Diocese and three priests…
A Religious Sister tells her Story
In the year 1953 two young girls, both about seven years of age, were living very different lives. One had just been put into an orphanage, while the other, a…
Priests out of Ministry
A BRIEF UPDATE ON DEVELOPING A SUPPORT GROUP FOR PRIESTS OUT OF MINISTRY We continue to make steady if slow progress. We will not call a meeting of priests out of…
4th Sunday Ordinary Time – Intercessions etc
As we move further into the New Year, the liturgy challenges us each Sunday to reflect on what following Christ means. We gather for to worship God, who sent his Son to teach with authority.
Can anyone help in this Search
I wonder if you can help, We were married 45 years ago by Father J Hearty, At St Teresa Church Ashford Kent England, Father Hearty had not long been ordained,…
Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban
Taken from the Western People, this is Brendan Hoban’s reflections on the latest news out of Maynooth, that seminarians are being separated from the rest of the student body
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time – Prayers of the Faithful etc
Now that the Christmas season is behind us and we are moving into the New Year, the liturgy challenges us to reflect on what following Christ means. We gather for Mass as God’s people, called to follow the Lamb of God and praising God, with thanksgiving.
January Update to ACP Members
The following update has been sent out to all our members; by email to those who have an address, and by post to others.
Victim support and/or mandatory reporting?
An account of a problem being faced by SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) in USA, as they are confronted with sub-poenas to reveal their records. Where an abused person turns for help to a support group, without wishing to go public or take legal action, should the support group be obliged to report the matter to the justice system?
An extract from the article on National Catholic Reporter is given here.
The full article on http://ncronline.org/news/accountability/snap-subpoenas-harm-key-ally-victims
Pádraig McCarthy
Priests out of Ministry
A small number of us priests who are out of ministry because of boundary issues realise that we can get through the sense of isolation and exclusion by being companions…
The New Missal – Michael Commane OP
If you’ve been at Mass anytime in the last six weeks you will most likely have noticed changes in many of the prayers. It’s often said that it is not…
The Truth About Falsely Accused Priests – Dave Pierre
This is a very interesting interview conducted by Catholic World Report with Dave Pierre, a journalist who has written extensively about false allegations against priests in the U.S.
Discerning a Way – Pádraig McCarthy
How did the Church in Ireland discern their direction in difficult times in the past? They held many Synods, when such consultation was far more difficult to arrange than today. Although these were clerical events, today it’s clear consultation must be opened up.
This is an article in the Furrow of January 2012.
An Association of Priests and People? – Mary O Vallely
Mary Vallely, from Armagh, is raising the question as to why we have an association for priests only. Should we not have one made up of priests and people together?
Priests and Pastoral Workers in Dublin – Paddy Moran
The introduction of pastoral workers in Dublin diocese has clearly not been without its problems and difficulties, as was obvious at the meeting in Marianella last month.
Here a priest of the diocese, Paddy Moran, is reflecting on some of these difficulties. He is calling for transparency in how this situation is dealt with, because that is the only way that proper understanding will be achieved.
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