Belgian Catholics call for Reform
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Posting Comments on ACP Website
Following deliberations it has been decided to introduce some changes with how comments are posted on the ACP website.
Report of Clogher ACP Meeting
A meeting of Clogher ACP took place in Clones on 26th October. Eight Priests attended, six sent their apologies.
Please, please, can politicians stop shouting and listen?
Tony Flannery gives his thoughts on the election campaign.
“please, whoever is elected, put your personal ambitions to one side, and don’t think only of your local area, but rather of the good of the country as a whole, and give us a government that will, in so far as it is possible, govern with wisdom and discernment, and for the good of all the people. And most of all, stop shouting at each other, and try to listen instead!.”The late Fr McGuane’s Furrow article is worth re-reading
Reacting to the news of the unexpected death of Fr Joseph McGuane, Sean O’Conaill commends Fr McGuane’s article in the 2008 Furrow, entitled THE PROFESSIONAL CLERIC (reprinted here).
ACP West Priests’ Meeting,
Report of the meeting of ACP western region
“Stem parish closures and mergers”; Association of US Catholic Priests
The National Catholic Reporter has a story of how the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests is in the final development stages of issuing an urgent “plea” to the U.S. bishops to “formulate a plan now to meet this emerging crisis” of parish closings and consolidations.
In a working draft it calls a “Proposal for Pastoral Care In & Thru Priestless Parishes,” the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests exhorts the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and “dioceses nationwide” to quickly address the issue.