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Association of Catholics in Ireland (ACI) Open Information Event, Belfast, Saturday 6th December 2014
Theme:
“Helping the Church to become self-critical:
Why the laity are best equipped for this role”
Documented Appeal to Pope Francis to Request the Re-instatement of the Ordained Diaconate for Women
Luca Badini Confalonieri, Research Director, on behalf of the Trustees, Patrons and Staff of the Wijngaards Institute recently appealed directly to Pope Francis for the Re-instatement of the Ordained Diaconate for Women.
“There should be no room in our Roman Catholic Church today for the rationale which subverted female deacons in the Middle Ages: the phobia concerning menstruation and the conceit that women are innately inferior to men.
The need for the ministry of women deacons is plain in every country. May your hands be the first to restore the diaconal dignity to women.”
The story of Sr Margaret Farrell in LA — an unlikely rebel
Michaela Haas profiles Sister Margaret Farrell, an Irish member of one of the Religious Orders in the USA chastised by the Vatican in April 2012. (First published in THE HUFFINGTON POST on 7 December 2012)
Tony Flannery to speak at 2nd ACI Meeting in Belfast – Saturday 21st Feb 2015
Notice from the Association of Catholics in Ireland
“Starting a National Conversation” The Association of Catholics in Ireland
ACI invite you to ‘The Church. the Family and Society in the 21st Century”
Featuring
Mark Patrick Hederman OSB
Abbot of Glenstal Abbey
Dr. Siobhan Garrigan
Loyola Chair of Catholic Theology
(Trinity college)
‘Concerned Catholics’ meet in Tuam
A participant reports on the meeting of ‘Concerned Catholics’ which took place in Tuam on 12 October. It was organised by a few people who described themselves as ‘concerned Catholics’: from it may come a local branch of the Association of Catholics in Ireland (ACI).