Annual General Meeting
Association of Catholic Priests
Annual General Meeting 2018
Wednesday 10 October 2018
The Bounty,
Athlone
Guest speaker
Dr John Feehan
Further details to be confirmed.
Association of Catholic Priests
Annual General Meeting 2018
Wednesday 10 October 2018
The Bounty,
Athlone
Guest speaker
Dr John Feehan
Further details to be confirmed.
Sarah Mac Donald writing in this week’s Tablet describes the awful ordeal of Fr Tim Hazelwood who had an anonymous false allegation made against him and who then was left to prove his own innocence while feeling totally abandoned by official church and fobbed off by the National Safeguarding Board.
“I was left feeling very alone”, he says. “I had to fight my accuser but I also had to fight the Church, because it didn’t help in any way.”
This article raises very disturbing questions for church authorities in how they deal with anonymous allegations, questions that should prevent them from sleeping easily until they have been fully resolved.
Robert Dore, solicitor, describes the Church’s protocols on anonymous allegations as “wrong” and “wholly inappropriate”.
The ACP has organised its initial Healing Circle for members and non-members.
Date: Tuesday 28 Nov 2017
Time: 2.00-5.00pm
Venue: Ovens Parish Centre, Co Cork (near Ballincollig)
Fr David Cooper is chair of our sister association in the U.S.(the AUSCP, the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests). This is his response to Brendan Hoban’s ‘Points of Clarification regarding the ACP’ posted on this page.
The Association of Catholic Priests met to discuss the New Missal On Thursday, June 2nd in Portlaoise. The purpose of the meeting was to seek further direction from our members,…
Fr Sean McDonagh and Fr Donal Dorr will shortly launch books that focus on Christians’ relationships with our planet earth
Tim Hazelwood reports on the recent ACP-sponsored meeting of lay people in Blarney, following on from the ‘Towards an Assembly’ gathering in Little Island in October 2012