Audio Recordings – ACP Events
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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.

The ACP Leadership Team reports on the priests’ meeting that formed part of the recent AGM of the Association
Sarah Mac Donald reports on our recent AGM in the National Catholic Reporter.
The stark, and all too real, picture painted by Brendan Hoban is extensively quoted. We can only hope that this article and other media coverage will encourage all to conduct ‘a reasonable conversation’ and consider the “right to consideration, acknowledgement, support, encouragement and, above all, respect,” that priests are entitled to.
Brendan is further quoted; “Priests who have served the church for so long deserve no less and it’s time to start a reasonable conversation about this.”
Would you believe it? Prime Time Investigates gets an award tonight. I have no doubt that, if we hadn’t been in the position to challenge them through the courts, the…
Gerry Moloney analyses the pressures many priests experience today and their causes, reflecting on the recent tragic death of a Mayo priest.
This is the text of Marie Keenan’s talk at the AGM. Members found it a very challenging talk, which questions many of the assumptions about child protection. Two that stand out for this editor are what she has to say about the National Board for Safeguarding Children, and the fact that bishops and religious superiors have now taken on the role of policing criminal activity, which she says should be reserved to the organs of the State.
Donal Dorr‘s book on ‘The Pope Francis agenda’ is being launched by Dr Mary McAleese on Thursday 2 August. The book, which focuses on the pope’s teaching on family, protection…