A disturbing quote from Pope Francis on the subject of women and political office.
Sunday night: Eilis O’Hanlon has admitted on Twitter that there was no proper authentification for her quote. Sunday Independent!!!
Brendan Hoban decries the media circus demonising Ireland’s Religious and asks why the public are so slow to defend them. He agrees with the nuns’ decision not to give further money to the State.
Pádraig McCarthy asks the government to reconsider before adding the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill to the statute books. He presents a specific case where gender selection is the reason for a mother threatening suicide, noting that abortion for the purpose of gender selection is illegal in England and Wales.
The Irish Bishops Conference has replied to the ACP’s letter which requested that the bishops enter into discussions with the CDF regarding Irish priests censured by the Vatican. The ACP’s original letter can be read here
The ACP Leadership Team sent this message today to all members; it gives advance notice of some events already organised for the Autumn
This letter was sent on behalf of a group of people in the West of Ireland, accompanying 1,200 signatures which they collected earlier this year. We are very grateful to all the people who worked on this project.
The ACP Leadership Team has been to meetings with most of the Diocesan Priests Councils over the past few months. Here is our report on those meetings.
We, the leadership of the ACP, fully endorse and support this statement from our colleagues in Austria.
The ACP Leadership Team welcomes the apology a Kerry priest has received in the High Court for a false allegation
So many Church people today blame ‘materialism’ for the loss of faith: here, Sean O Connaill suggests that materialism is not the problem, but rather covetous or mimetic desire. The fundamental human need that drives surplus material acquisition is a need for something entirely non-material. Homilists are challenged to reflect this in their words.
Seamus Ahearne responds to Eddie Finnegan’s noting that so few priests write on this site. He suggests that in the life of a priest, words are enormously important – written or spoken.
Tony Flannery is looking for help on how to deal with an impersonator on Twitter.
Martin Hayes from Waterfall in Cork laments to lack of real follow-up to the marvellous gathering in the Regency twelve months ago. He also believes that the movement to have two separate associations is part of the problem, and is actually stifling progress.
Fr Sean McDonagh SSC reflects on the collapse of the garment factory in Bangladesh, and how where we buy our clothes has implications far beyond what we might be aware of.
An update has been received a member of the organising team of the Support Group for Priests and Religious out of Ministry. The ACP Leadership are delighted that this initiative is going well, and we encourage those who read this to spead the word of this group’s existence to any priest you know who is in this situation.
This account was sent in to the website by a woman whose name is with the ACP Leadership Team. They decided not to publish her name, so that the church and the priest would not be easily identified.
The ACP has called on the Irish Bishops’ Conference to meet Ireland’s silenced priests as soon as possible and to then negotiate with the CDF. A motion proposing this was agreed by over 250 priests at a meeting in Athlone, and the motion subsequently signed by over a thousand people on this website.
Robert Dore, the ACP’s solicitor, advises priests to be cautious about undergoing assessments at the request of their bishops. The ACP Leadership thank Mr Dore for this very important advice — and encourage all our members to pass the word around among priest and Religious friends.
Margaret Lee highly recommends the film ‘Pilgrim Hill‘, a low budget movie filmed in Kerry; and she praises the support given to the production by Pat Moore. Pat is a priest of Kerry diocese, and an active member of the ACP
The Kerry diocesan branch of the ACP met recently and members offered suggestions why few priests respond to local ACP meetings.
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