International Coverage for Letter about “A New Process for the Church and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith”
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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
On Wednesday, September 9th a meeting of the leadership team of the Association of Catholic Priests took place in the Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone.The meeting involved most of the current ACP leadership and a wider group of priests whom the leadership sought to consult about the future of the ACP. We explored three questions: Is there or not a compelling reason for the ACP to remain in existence? If yes, what structures would best enable the ACP function for that purpose? What should happen next?
The meeting was chaired by Martin Kennedy.
Ellen Teague reports on the recent launch in London of Sean McDonagh’s book, Fukushima: The Death Knell for Nuclear Energy?
The ACP Leadership Team reports on their recent meeting with members of Killaloe Priests Council in Ennis
The Steering Group which is developing an umbralla group for lay people reports on its work since the All Hallows meeting on 30 May. In a statement, the ACP Leadership Team stated that they ‘are delighted to see this initiative progressing, and forward to having a very fruitful alliance with it’.
Sean McDonagh and Tony Flannery spoke today with Miriam O’Callaghan on RTE Radio 1.
Tony said that the Church in Ireland is “in a state of utter collapse”, with people “leaving the Church in droves”, and action is needed to change this. They said the Catholic Church also needs to apologise for how it has treated women and give them more power in the Church.
