At a recent meeting of the ACP it was decided that there would be an annual membership fee of €20. That fee is now due.
Members can pay through a facility on the website.
Or alternatively they can send the fee by cheque (payable to the Association of Catholic Priests) to Tony Flannery, St. Patrick’s, Esker, Athenry, Co. Galway.
Letter from the leadership team to all members.
Reminder to pay membership fees if not already done and an appeal for sponsors!
Please note that all Cheques should be made out to “The Association of Catholic Priests” and not in the name of any individual member.
About twenty five priests attended the meeting in Ovens on 12 April, as did Tony Flannery from the Leadership Team. It was a lively, energetic meeting, with plenty of contributions from the people present. The first item on the agenda was a report on the survey conducted among ACP members in Munster in preparation for the Apostolic Visitors. Respondents said that their own personal morale was high, but that they believed that priests’ morale generally was low….
The ACP Leadership discussed the issues surrounding the National Maternity Hospital at their (quarterly) meeting on 2nd May 2017 and issued the following statement…
As this issue is already being debated on our website comments can be addressed to the article “Catholic Ethos and Other Mysteries”,
With over 30 priests from Tuam Diocese already registered as members of the ACP there was a very positive and enthusiastic meeting in the ‘Cúram Centre’ Claremorris on Tuesday 15th…
With thanks to Eamon Aylward for supplying this to us.
About eighteen months ago some priests of Dublin Archdiocese approached the ACP Leadership with the proposal that a study of Judge Yvonne Murphy’s Investigation of Clerical Child Abuse in the Archdiocese be conducted.
Retired High Court Judge from Hong Kong, Mr. Fergal Sweeney, was commissioned to do this work.
We here publish his report:
Commissions of Investigation and Procedural Fairness Report (40 pages, PDF)
In conjunction with this, Fr. Padraig McCarthy of the Archdiocese has just published a book on the same subject. This does not duplicate Fergal Sweeney’s work but includes further areas of analysis of the Murphy Report. Padraig’s book, An Unheard Story (published by Londubh) will be available in most bookshops.
