The meeting ‘Towards an Assembly for the South’ has a new venue. It will be held in the Radisson Blu Hotel on the road to Little Island (not at the Commons Inn as previously announced) on Saturday, October 13th next. If you are planning to attend please register on the website. There is no charge for attendance; registering is purely to help the hotel in planning for the event.
Bill O’Herlihy, who describes himself as a committed Catholic, commends Tony Flannery’s book “A Question of Conscience” and finds in it an exposition of how the Vatican and its constituent bodies deal with people who challenge any of their views. (Given as a talk at the launch of the book at Royal Hibernian Academy on 12 Setpember 2013.)
The Association of Catholic Priests, while it welcomes the fact that Bishop Magee did an interview, believes that what he said was inadequate. Like many other senior clerics, the language…
Download Tim Hazelwood’s interview with Joe Duffy on Liveline.
Sean O’Connaill deplores the bishops’ lack of transparency on the funding and independence of the national body for child protection that they set up (the NSBCCC), and hopes for the day when bishops will be accountable to their people.
Following deliberations it has been decided to introduce some changes with how comments are posted on the ACP website.
Fr Tony Butler finds Tony’s “silencing” scary and reflects on fear in his own life and in the Church
