Fr Gerard Moloney CSsR is giving a talk
“My experience at the hands of the CDF”
followed by Q & A at 2.00pm on Saturday, 25 June, 2016 at the Jesuit Conference Centre, Milltown Park, Sandford Road, Ranelagh, Dublin 6
The ‘We Are Church’ AGM will follow at 3pm.
The ACP will host 4 public regional meetings ahead of the Papal visit.
The theme of the meetings is “What do we need to say to Pope Francis about the Irish Church?”
These meetings are open to everybody.
Deborah Rose-Milavec reports on www.futurechurch.org about the 2nd international meeting of priest associations and lay reform groups that recently took place in Limerick.
Eddie Finnegan asks why so few priests in the northern dioceses engage with the ACP
Seán O Conaill argues that clergy-inspired shame over the phenomenon of sexuality has brought about the magisterium’s blindness to the effects of clerical abuse of children.
Sarah Mac Donald reports in the NCR on comments by Bishop Donal McKeown of Derry who said that unless the bishops are seen to be “willing to go way beyond our comfort zone then people will say you are just a group looking after yourselves.”
Tony Flannery responding said that he has received “great support from many people and priests,” but he has also experienced “how quickly and completely church authorities shut you out as soon as the Vatican moves against you…… All I have ever looked for in relation to myself and others who are accused of ‘dissent’ is a process that is fair, just and transparent.”
He added, “The present CDF process is a scandal, and brings shame on our church.””
Brendan Hoban writes in the Western People about the type of bishop Pope Francis is appointing and longs for bishops in Ireland ‘to take risks, to go forward, to face the future courageously’.
From to-days (May 13) Acts reading
….. I told them that it was not the custom of the Romans to hand over anyone before the accused had met the accusers face to face and had been given an opportunity to make a defense against the charge. So when they met here, I lost no time, but on the next day took my seat on the tribunal and ordered the man to be brought……..
AH WELL that was the empire.