This is a very interesting short piece sent to us by Des O’Donnell OMI. It show that the U.S. bishops were open to discussing the sort of issues that Irish Priests are now being silenced and censored for; indeed they were prepared to go much further.
Jo O’Sullivan has put pen to paper again for us, and she looks at one possible vision of the future of the Church, what might happen if all those who think differently to the Magisterium on certain issues have either left or been driven out.
For those who do not read the Sunday World, this is Fr Brian D’Arcy’s column for Sunday, April 22nd.
This is the press statement issued by We are Church announcing a silent vigil outside the Apostolic Nunciature on Sunday afternoon, April 29th.
There are some people commenting on the ACP Opinion Poll who do not seem to understand what an opinion poll is, and who interpret it as a list of demands about the way the church should be: they see it as a type of disloyalty or rebellion. Pádraig McCarthy explains…
The present debate is certainly inspiring people to begin to think out their position in the Church in a way that they may not have done before, and to state it publicly. This time Martina Killeavy takes pen to paper.
This extensive article on the Eucharistic Congress was sent to us by John O’Loughlin Kennedy.
We publish this with acknowledgement to the Western People
This article was sent to us this evening by Nessan Vaughan.
We are happy to put it up.
This open letter comes from the Association of Pittsburg Priests in the United States. We thank them for their support
This piece is by a Redemptorist colleague of Tony Flannery, writing from Brazil. It is typical of the widespread support being given to Tony by Redemptorists here in Ireland and in many other countries.
These interesting quotations from the 1971 Synod on ‘Justice in the World’ came from our colleague in Australia, Gerry Hefferan. This official Church document has much to say that is relevant to the current situation in the Church. It is a short piece, well worth reading.
Eddie Finnegan notes the ACP’s spurt of Easter growth in the light of what he calls Tony Flannery’s “white martyrdom”. And he reflects on how blest the Austrian Priests’ initiative is to have Christoph Schonborn as shepherd and guide: an Austrian for pope?
This interesting reflection on the recently puslished survey which we commissioned comes from Noel Casey of Carrick-on-Suir
This brief piece reveals some of the work that Tony Flannery has been doing for priests since the founding of the ACP
The following article was sent to us by Sean O’Conaill (Derry). Sean is well known as a writer on Church matters, and is the founder of the Irish branch of Voice of the Faithful.
This research was commissioned by The Association of Catholic Priests to gain an understanding of Catholic’s views on contemporary Catholicism.
This article, by Gerry O’Hanlon, is published in The Furrow. Gerry is outlining the rationale behind the event on May 7th, and his hopes for the future. We thank Gerry for the article.
This article, by Kevin Hegarty, appeared in the Rite and Reason Column of the Irish Times, Tues. April 10th. He is commenting on the ‘investigation’ of Tony Flannery
Fr Tony Butler finds Tony’s “silencing” scary and reflects on fear in his own life and in the Church
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