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“Your God is too small“ – Hawking
Seamus Ahearne casts and eye over recent happenings.
“We celebrated St Patrick. Was his father a deacon and his grandfather a priest? I don’t know. The accretions of history have decorated the story and there is great unsureness. But it doesn’t matter really, the essentials of faith and mission have survived. His Confessions are delightful in their simplicity; evocative as a story; inspirational in how God works despite our own shortcomings.”
New book of John F Deane poems to be launched in Dublin
John F Deane invites ACP memebrs and friends to the launch of his most recent book of poems
The Church: Always in Need of Reform – Book Review
Paul Graham OSA reviews Gabriel Daly’s, “The Church: Always in Need of Reform”.
He says of it ‘I expected to find an intellectual outlook that had become passé, full of the thoughts of an old man unable to accept that the theological frontline has moved on. Quite the contrary, in fact. This book is a distillation of the best of liberal Catholic thought, expressed clearly and with conviction.’
ACP members in Cork county gather
ACP members in Cork & Ross and Cloyne dioceses met recently in Ovens. Fr Oliver Brennan (Armagh) was their guest speaker.
Supervision for clergy: how it works in an Australian Anglican diocese
Bryan Dunn reports on the system for supervision being implements for clergy in the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle in Australia — a possible model for Irish dioceses?
“Stem parish closures and mergers”; Association of US Catholic Priests
The National Catholic Reporter has a story of how the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests is in the final development stages of issuing an urgent “plea” to the U.S. bishops to “formulate a plan now to meet this emerging crisis” of parish closings and consolidations.
In a working draft it calls a “Proposal for Pastoral Care In & Thru Priestless Parishes,” the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests exhorts the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and “dioceses nationwide” to quickly address the issue.