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The music of hurling: It has been years since I watched a game on TV. That changed last Sunday. I was enthralled by the All-Ireland Hurling Final with Cork…
‘the world has changed and so must the Church’
Brendan Hoban, writing in the Western People, again comments on the decreasing numbers of priests to serve in Ireland and the consequences that arise as a result for the remaining, mainly elderly, priests.
But he adds “my interest here is not in the priesthood issue.
Rather it’s on how the failure to address this issue by the leadership of our Church is impinging on the immediate victims (the present priests) caught in the slipstream of an on-going decision by the Irish bishops to continue to avoid ‘the elephant in the living room’.
“Are there not a few bishops who might do a Bishop Kräutler on it and have a chat with Pope Francis about the implications of his Christmas message – ‘the world has changed and so must the Church’?
What is it about that sentence that the Irish bishops don’t understand or refuse to accept, even though almost every Catholic in Ireland seems happy to acknowledge?”Annual General Meeting 2018
Report on the Annual General Meeting 2018
The annual assembly of the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests (AUSCP)
The National Catholic Reporter has a story on the annual assembly of the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests (AUSCP). It says the conference “heard calls for the church to focus on young Catholics, embrace the pastoral theology of Pope Francis, and affirm the Second Vatican Council’s theological spadework.
In both his opening evening welcome and homily during the June 27 Mass, Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, lauded the group, calling it ‘a wonderfully powerful and necessary voice’ and ‘voice of hope and joy.’ “CRUX and NCR Online: Remembering former NCR Rome correspondent, Crux founder John L. Allen Jr.
by Christopher White Former Vatican Correspondent (2021-2025) Link to article with photos: https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/guest-voices/former-ncr-rome-correspondent-crux-founder-john-l-allen-jr-dies-61 Soon after John L. Allen Jr. hired me as national correspondent for Crux — the news outlet…
Radio interview: Austin Ivereigh
Austin Ivereigh is a great friend of Pope Francis – having written his two Biographies. He has also just written a new book entitle First Belong to God – On Retreat…
When I read this interview with Fr.Joe Mullan I noted the synchronicity that it was published at the same Easter weekend as my piece. (Irish Times Rite and Reason – Soline Humbert: Denial of a vocation to women isn’t just ‘discomfort’, it is spiritual abuse – Association Of Catholic Priests https://share.google/7lOlnfeeHV88MVaem)
And as if to underline this, the same church, St Thérèse appears in both our photos. I am outside, of course!
Furthermore, in both pieces there is a reference to the Cross/Crucifixion.
A message from the Holy Spirit for those who can read the signs of the times? Time to roll away the very large stone of exclusion!