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Gay Catholics organise seminar in Dublin
Gay Catholic Voice Ireland announce a seminar for gay Catholics to be held in Dublin in April, which takes its inspiration from Pope Francis’ words on the plane from Rio: “Who am I to judge?”
Reform of the curia and resistance to it
Gerard O’Connell in Americamagazine reports on the address of Pope Francis to the curia.
Clogher priests have reservations about clustering parishes
Jimmy Mc Phillips reports on a recent meeting of ACP members in the Diocese of Clogher, which took place shortly after a Clogher priest had to stand down from ministry. The meeting also considered a plan for grouping parishes recently put forward by Bishop Liam
Comment on Irish Times Cartoon
The leadership of the ACP protests in the strongest possible terms at a cartoon in the Irish Times that they perceive to be gratuitously insulting to Irish Catholic priests
Bishop Resigns – Pope Francis backs down in dispute with Nigerian priests
Joshua J. McElwee reports in the National Catholic Reporter on the long running dispute in the Nigerian diocese of Ahiara.
“The priests had complained that Bishop Peter Okpaleke was not from Mbaise, the region surrounding their diocese..”Breaking New Ground
Chris McDonnell writes in The Catholic Times about the shortage of priests and states that “It will soon be too late to consider a possible resolution to the problems we face unless we take active steps now to address our difficulties.”
“there is a now a clear necessity for Commissions to be set up both in the UK and Ireland by the respective bishops’ conferences to examine the whole issue before the model we are currently struggling to manage breaks and we are left to pick up the pieces.”