Margaret Lee highly recommends the film ‘Pilgrim Hill‘, a low budget movie filmed in Kerry; and she praises the support given to the production by Pat Moore. Pat is a priest of Kerry diocese, and an active member of the ACP
On the fourth Sunday of Easter each year, we honour the Risen Lord as our Good Shepherd. And we pray that God will give the Church men and women formed in the image of the Good Shepherd, who will be the priests, deacons and Religious of the future.
President Michael D Higgins‘s address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg has drawn much favourable comment and is recommended to ACP members. (For those who prefer to listen, his address is here .)
Brendan Hoban reflects on the isolation of rural Irish priests and adds a historical perspective, suggesting it was ever thus (first published in the Western People on 16 April).
The Kerry diocesan branch of the ACP met recently and members offered suggestions why few priests respond to local ACP meetings.
Joshua J McElwee reports in the NCR on Pope Francis’ reaffirmation of his predeccessor’s rebuke of American Religious. (Original story and comments are here.)
We’re two weeks into the Easter season now, but the Good News of the season continues to reverberate in the Liturgy. Joyfully we worship God who raised our Saviour from the dead.
Brendan Hoban finds that the surveys conducted on school patronage reveal that most parents are happy with having their children educated in Catholic schools. He believes the the Church should take a firm stand with the Minister for Education.
For Funerals For Weddings For other Occasions Here are some pieces from Fr. Tom Cooney OSA, Fr. Flor McCarthy SDB, Tommy Lane and John O’Connell. More current material will hopefully…
Mary O. Vallely shares an Easter reflection on Mary Magdalene, a saint she believes to have been badly treated by the official Church down through the centuries (reflection composed by Fr James Martin SJ).
Padraig McCarthy reports that the meeting scheduled between ACP members and the church leaders of the Holy Land has been cancelled by the organisers.
Jimmy McPhillips, an ACP member in Clogher diocese, critiques the ACP and its website, and regrets that so few of priests’ real concerns are raised: frustration, absence of real leadership, low morale, depression and all the burdens of pastoral ministry. He suggests that ACP members meeting at local level in dioceses and Religious communities might help keep the leadership in touch with these core issues.
Tony Flannery shares some of his hopes and dreams for the Church after the election of Pope Francis (article written for the Connacht Tribune).
Eddie Finnegan asks why so few priests in the northern dioceses engage with the ACP
Eddie Finnegan probes the non-participation of the vast majority of Ireland’s parish priests on their ACP website, and ponders if a fear of clericalism is at its heart
Eddie Finnegan analyses postings to the ACP website (articles and comments) and finds ordinary diocesan priest-members in Ireland almost absent from its pages.
A week from now, the Rising Sun will have dawned on Easter Sunday morning. But before we reach that feast, we recall the suffering and death of the Lord, believing his sufferings brought him glory, a destiny we share.
The New York Times profiles Father Helmut Schüller, the ‘mild but rebellious priest’ who was part of the 2011 ‘Appeal to Disobedience’ by 400 priests in Austria. This initiative began with a small group of priests, talking about the problems faced by their parishes, about the lack of successors to take their places, and about the fusing of congregations.
(A version of this article appeared in print on March 23, 2013, on page A8 of the New York edition with the headline: With New Pope, Spotlight Returns to a Mild but Rebellious Priest.)
Mary Cunningham outlines the CDF’s controlling role in the silencing of Fr Sean Fagan, undermining Archbishop Charles Brown’s recent assertion that such actions are a matter for a religious priest’s superior
As the universal Church celebrates the Fifth Sunday of Lent and asks God’s blessings on our new pope, the Irish Church invokes the help of Patrick, our national apostle, on his springtime feastday: may the faith he taught always remain fresh in Ireland and wherever Irish missionaries carried it.
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