Omission in Email.
The meeting on Friday, Nov. 9th with Peter McVerry speaking at the Regency Hotel begins at 7.30pm.
The meeting on Friday, Nov. 9th with Peter McVerry speaking at the Regency Hotel begins at 7.30pm.
Tony Flannery reports on a meeting that took place in Bregenz, Austria in October. It was attended by representatives of reform groups from various parts of the world.
Tony Hoey, an Irishman living in England, invites members to sign his petition for married priests. He explains why he set up his website.
As a result of our meeting with the Bishop’s Commission, and their response to that meeting, which we regarded as very inadequate, we have decided to issue the following statement to the media.
It also contains notice of a general meeting to discuss this subject on June 2nd in Portlaoise.
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?”
This is the press statement issued at the end of the AGM of the ACP, held on 29 October in Athlone.
The ACP, in conjunction with some others, are organising a gathering, which we are calling “Towards an Assembly of the Irish Catholic Church”. It will take place on Monday, May…