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.
Fr David Cooper is chair of our sister association in the U.S.(the AUSCP, the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests). This is his response to Brendan Hoban’s ‘Points of Clarification regarding the ACP’ posted on this page.
This is a very interesting and encouraging development in Clogher. As you can see from the report, they are really facing the issues and problems that all of us as priests are confronted with. We, the leadership, would love if other dioceses could maybe take a lead from this, and begin to organise similar type meetings. I am aware that such discussion is probably done best at local level, but if anyone could come up with how we might pursue these agendas at a national level we would love to hear from them. The organiser of the ACP in Clogher is Jimmy McPhillips. I am sure Jimmy would be more than happy to give advice to any other group wishing to follow their lead.
Following deliberations it has been decided to introduce some changes with how comments are posted on the ACP website.
The ACP has called on the Irish Bishops’ Conference to meet Ireland’s silenced priests as soon as possible and to then negotiate with the CDF. A motion proposing this was agreed by over 250 priests at a meeting in Athlone, and the motion subsequently signed by over a thousand people on this website.
Tony Flannery continues his speaking tour in the U.S.A.
Margery Eagan, spirituality columnist with www.cruxnow.com, reports on the tour. Margery is a long-time writer and commentator on current affairs, politics, women’s issues, and Catholicism. She co-hosts “Boston Public Radio” with Jim Braude on 89.7 WGBH in Boston.
Michael W. Higgins comments on the Vatican’s discouragement of the publication of the Synod survey results and fears Pope Francis may be losing his nerve (first pubished in the Globe and Mail, Toronto on 20 February 2014).