Audio Recordings – ACP Events
A reminder that copies of audio recordings of key ACP events are available from
www.eist.ie
Contact Paul Daly
at
www.eist.ie
or
087 278 9390.
A reminder that copies of audio recordings of key ACP events are available from
www.eist.ie
Contact Paul Daly
at
www.eist.ie
or
087 278 9390.
Sean M O’Connail assesses the progress in the ten-year plan of implementing the National Directory for Catechesis and finds that, three years in, it has come to a standstill. He calls on the Irish Bishops to acknowledge the state of emergency in the Irish Church, given the crisis facing clerical manpower and morale.
Tony Flannery believes reactions to Mary McAleese’s intervention on homosexuality illustrate differing understandings of Magisterium in the Church (first published in the Irish Independent on 11 January 2014).
Seamus Ahearne shares two personal letters he wrote to the Papal Nuncio to Ireland, Archbishop Charles Brown, about the nuncio’s refusal to accept an invitation from the ACP to meet with us.
“You will meet the formal church in your work. People will dress up. All the Liturgies will be done beautifully. You will be invited to a celebrating Church. I would suggest that the church you need to meet is the one on the ground; the informal one; the broken one; the hurting one; the one where most people have walked away; the one where lives are messed up totally.”
“Your job is much too important for you to opt out of hearing the views of a very serious and passionate group – the ACP. How can you shape the Church in Ireland if you are dismissive of the experience of those who know the scene best?”
The ACP Leadership Team issued this statement on Sunday 20 January 2013 in support of Tony Flannery
Wilfred Harrington OP and Jim Stanley CSsR share their reflections
Padraig McCarthy reviews Archbishop Diarmuid Martin’s response to the legal review of the Murphy Report, agreeing that it makes valid points — but also pointing out that there is more to be said.