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ACP proposes agenda for meetings with Priests’ Councils

Most members will be aware that some time ago the Leadership Team requested a meeting with the Irish Bishops, but they replied that they were not willing to meet us and that instead we should meet with the Priests’ Councils in each diocese. We have followed up on that by sending a request to each diocese for such a meeting. We have got a few positive responses, and a number looking for the agenda of the proposed meeting. The following are the issues we would like to discuss with Priests’ Councils:
1. Vocations
2. Procedures for dealing with allegations against priests.
3. Following the New Missal, the impending translation of the Lectionary.
4. Pastoral implications of the current economic situation.
5. The role of priests in the appointment of bishops.
6. The renewal of the Church in this Year of Faith.
Leadership Team ACP

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As a preparation for our discussions ‘The Vocations Crisis, will clustering work?’ at our AGM on 01 October, we commend to our members two articles from the September Furrow, On the Edge by Donagh O’Meara and The Last Priests in Ireland by Donald Cozzens, which map out the context for our discussion.
We encourage as many of our members as possible to attend the AGM in the Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone, 01 October 2.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.

Tony Flannery’s grasp of theology is acclaimed in U.S. Catholic paper

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Eugene Cullen Kennedy, the emeritus professor of psychology at Loyola University, Chicago, praises Tony Flannery’s grasp of theology and acclaims it as ‘better than that of his silencers’ (first published in the US-based National Catholic Reporter of 25 January). Read original article and comments here

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  1. Good for you for following through in the face of disappointments. Birthing pains.
    Good luck with all of it.

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  2. Tom Morally says:

    What a positive start to 2013.
    We are praying that with God’s grace the lines of communication can be opened.
    The Year of Faith would be meaningless if church leaders and priests were to sail through it without talking to each other. We need more than that.

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  4. Ned Quinn says:

    Oh dear God. Not the lectionary too.

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  5. John Dwyer Kirwin says:

    Why don’t we JUST SAY NO to a new lectionary, unless it’s undertaken by those who KNOW, WRITE & PUBLICLY SPEAK the Queen’s English?

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  6. If I would add anything to the agenda: it would be a discussion about the “New Evangelization”…What can we do in our parishes? As well, maybe, a discussion, of the Catholic Directory, “Share the Good News”…….focus being on evangelization and faith development……….what can parishes or parish clusters do? Another point for discussion might be: renewal of liturgy. Oh, my, I found three points……I hope that’s okay
    Here is where the universality of Rome is important today………
    There seems to be universal concensus…….that there is a need for a “New Evangelization”. Even it we can’t find universal concensus, on anythingelse…….that we do.

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