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This is the link to RTÉ Player to watch the programme… https://www.rte.ie/player/series/the-last-priests-and-nuns-in-ireland/10001910-00-0000?epguid=IP10001911-01-0001 Don’t forget Programme 2 – The Last Nuns in Ireland is on Tues 16 Jan at 10.15pm on…
We Are Church Ireland Event with Roy Donovan
10 February
Mercy Centre International, 64a Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2.
An interesting address by Dermot Farrell, Bishop of Ossory, at the Conference with Laity and Priests in the Diocese of Ossory;
“Pope Francis is constantly putting his synodal vision of the church before us. The question he is asking, and that we should ask ourselves, is what kind of church is God calling the priests and all Catholics to be in the longer term – perhaps less self-referential and more a community of missionary disciples, less clerical and more synodical, “……
“We have fallen off a cliff edge in regard to vocations to the priesthood. Many speak of a crisis in this regard…….This time of reduced numbers may well afford us an opportunity to be creative and to reimagine the institutional church.”
The ACP highlights the Call to Action now extended to Birmingham (originally launched by Portsmouth priests)
Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP Leadership Team weekly homily – 3rd Sunday of the Year – 26 Jan 2025 – ‘Inauguration’
Maurice Taylor, a Scottish bishop who served for many years on the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL), welcomes Pope Francis’ decision to change the criteria for liturgical translation.
Our thanks to Bishop Taylor and to Mary Cullen, editor of Open House, for their permission to publish this article.