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.
Tony Biviano asks Irish priests to support an online petition on behalf of three Australian bishops, who want the Church to address the issue of abuse of children ‘ for Christ’s sake’
Brendan Hoban responds to comments made by Senator Rónán Mullen on a live radio programme concerning Fr. Tony Flannery.
On the day when the Vatican’s three-year investigation into US nuns concluded with a call to continued dialogue it seems that the message of openness preached by Pope Francis is still not being heard in some quarters, not least the CDF.
In contrast the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life commenting on those sisters who did not co-operate with the ‘visitation’ says “we use this present opportunity to invite all religious institutes to accept our willingness to engage in respectful and fruitful dialogue with them.”
We look forward to this “willingness to engage in respectful and fruitful dialogue” being put into practice by all in the Curia and all in positions of power or influence.
Milltown Park Lecture
Divorce, Remarriage, and the Eucharist – the State of the Question
A Lecture exploring the limits of God’s mercy
Sarah Mac Donald reported in the National Catholic Reporter on our recent AGM
About twenty five priests attended the meeting in Ovens on 12 April, as did Tony Flannery from the Leadership Team. It was a lively, energetic meeting, with plenty of contributions from the people present. The first item on the agenda was a report on the survey conducted among ACP members in Munster in preparation for the Apostolic Visitors. Respondents said that their own personal morale was high, but that they believed that priests’ morale generally was low….
Sean McDonagh presents the Minutes of the Business Meeting of the ACP that took place on Wed 5 Oct during the AGM
