Fr Gerard Moloney CSsR is giving a talk
“My experience at the hands of the CDF”
followed by Q & A at 2.00pm on Saturday, 25 June, 2016 at the Jesuit Conference Centre, Milltown Park, Sandford Road, Ranelagh, Dublin 6
The ‘We Are Church’ AGM will follow at 3pm.
This is the press statement issued by We are Church announcing a silent vigil outside the Apostolic Nunciature on Sunday afternoon, April 29th.
Seamus Ahearne shares two personal letters he wrote to the Papal Nuncio to Ireland, Archbishop Charles Brown, about the nuncio’s refusal to accept an invitation from the ACP to meet with us.
“You will meet the formal church in your work. People will dress up. All the Liturgies will be done beautifully. You will be invited to a celebrating Church. I would suggest that the church you need to meet is the one on the ground; the informal one; the broken one; the hurting one; the one where most people have walked away; the one where lives are messed up totally.”
“Your job is much too important for you to opt out of hearing the views of a very serious and passionate group – the ACP. How can you shape the Church in Ireland if you are dismissive of the experience of those who know the scene best?”
Thanks to the National Catholic Reporter, we are glad to be able to bring the full text of Cardinal Martini’s interview. We in the ACP believe that this is an enormously significant statement, coming from a man of such learning, distinction and spirituality; and the circumstances of the interview make it, in a sense, his last will and testament to the Church. It gives us encouragement and hope in the positions we have adopted.
Brendan Hoban writes in the Western People about the type of bishop Pope Francis is appointing and longs for bishops in Ireland ‘to take risks, to go forward, to face the future courageously’.
Pádraig McCarthy notes the extreme inequality now visible in Irish society, where 1,200 people died as a result of fuel poverty last winter, yet the nation’s 300 wealthiest individuals saw their wealth increase massively in 2012. He finds church leaders almost silent on the matter and asks if the ACP should take it up, in line with the our consitiution.
This is a warning to some person (or persons) who is causing trouble by sending letters to bishops supposedly coming from us.
From to-days (May 13) Acts reading
….. I told them that it was not the custom of the Romans to hand over anyone before the accused had met the accusers face to face and had been given an opportunity to make a defense against the charge. So when they met here, I lost no time, but on the next day took my seat on the tribunal and ordered the man to be brought……..
AH WELL that was the empire.