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The Quiet Revolution
Gerry O Hanlon SJ in an opinion piece in the Irish Times maintains that Pope Francis is quietly revolutionising the Church.
“It seems to me that what is going on here is that Francis is proposing a paradigm shift in our model of church that, in effect, reverses the status quo of the past millennium and returns, with appropriate adjustments for our age, to a first millennium model. This is huge, a ‘quiet revolution’, which, strategically, has the potential to unlock many concrete issues of contention within the Church.”Gerry maintains that this model of church needs to be adopted at a local level.
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.’‘Why Women felt compelled to speak out in Killaloe Diocese’
Kathleen McDonnell in her address at Claremorris explained why she and others in Killaloe diocese felt compelled to speak out against the introduction of the male only permanent diaconate.
Why people fail to confront sexual abuse
Fr Raymond J. de Souza writes on why is it so difficult to speak up about sexual abuse, and why so many prefer to keep quiet
Partners but never Rivals
Brian Eyre, writing from Brazil, outlines his vision of how priesthood may evolve in the (near) future.
I am the youngest Kildare priest
Paddy Byrne, the youngest priest of Kildare and Leighlin diocese, writes of his experiences (first published in the Carlow Nationalist)