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Limerick Diocese Synod ….. a real marker, but the journey goes on
Ainead Ní Mhuirthile gives a personal reaction to her experience as a Synod Delegate in the Limerick Diocesan Synod.
Ainead quotes one priest saying “I thought I’d never see the day where lay people would have a vote in a Church Synod,” adding “should have happened a year or two after Vatican 2 of course…”
and Bishop Leahy “This Synod is a real marker, but the journey goes on..”An eccentric in the Algarve
Seamus Ahearne, from his seaside retreat, reflects on recent happenings in Ireland and in Church and is not alarmed.
“Wherever I have worked, the church and the culture were not synonymous. We were never that important in the scheme of things and that was and is much better. I don’t think that the coincidence of culture and religion was ever good or right as it has been in Ireland. But the world of God is not shattered when people vote against the view of the Bishops. God and Faith goes on.”
“I am blessed. My church is a happy, noisy, argumentative place. No Referendum changes that one.”Mercy in Action
Mike O’Maera reports in the NCR of the Kenyan Bishops’ Conference celebrating Lent and the Year of Mercy in a very practical way. Could it be an example for European and U.S. Bishops’ Conferences to copy and lessen their use of the year as a drive to get people back into the confessional?
Needing more than Needle and Thread
Seamus Ahearne looks at the week that was, raids ‘the pockets of God’ and “lifts us beyond the ordinary and the obvious and enables us to see the treasure and the pearl.”
ACP receives response from bishops regarding censured priests
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 making of bishops
Joshua J. McElwee reports in the National Catholic Reporter that the recent meeting of the Council of Cardinals discussed the role of Nuncios in the appointment of bishops. It seems the Council of Cardinals previously discussed the selection of bishops around the world in their meeting held last April.
Are they talking to anyone other than themselves about how bishops are chosen and appointed?