Last Priests TV doc on again 1 Sept @ 11.05pm
The Documentary The Last Priests is being shown again on RTÉ 1 television on Sunday 1st September in the evening at 11.05 pm.
And The Last Nuns on Sunday 8th, also at 11.05pm
The Documentary The Last Priests is being shown again on RTÉ 1 television on Sunday 1st September in the evening at 11.05 pm.
And The Last Nuns on Sunday 8th, also at 11.05pm
We Are Church Ireland launched a petition calling on Pope Francis to change Vatican theological language that is gravely insulting to LGBTQI people.
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With thanks to Gerry O Hanlon and The Messenger we include the Introduction to Gerry’s new book.
Gerry O Hanlon sj has just published a book on Pope Francis and the Catholic Church in Ireland which may be of interest to readers of the web-site. More info available at Messenger web site.
Having recently read Brendan’s excellent book, “Holding out for a Hero” and his description of the despair when it became obvious that the very conservative, autocratic John Paul II was intent on abandoning the ideals of Vatican II and returning our church to the nineteenth century, one of the former priests on last nights program “The Last Priests” summed it up so well when he said that with Wojtyla in Rome we were on a train in reverse gear heading back into the last century.
Link to programme(s):
https://programmesales.rte.ie/programme/the-last-priests-nuns-in-ireland