Report on a recent meeting of the Leadership of the ACP

Report on a recent meeting of the Leadership of the ACP.
A meeting of the leadership of the ACP took place in the Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone on Wednesday, 17 August, 2016.
Among the items discussed were:
(1)   AGM, 2016

The date for the AGM has been finalised:

Wednesday, 16 November from 2.00 to 5.00pm in the Hodson Bay, Hotel, Athlone.

It will follow the usual format: a first session on a specific issue, with a guest speaker and participation from the floor followed by a business meeting.

(2)   Press releases

Agreed statements / press releases on (i) seminary training  and (ii) the election of bishops have been published on the ACP website .

(3)  Leadership of the ACP.

As a number of the Leadership will not serve after the coming AGM, there was a discussion on the need for new candidates.

(4)     Other issues

  • Our new Administrative Secretary, Liamy McNally will take up his position on 01 September.
  • A letter has been sent to the bishops asking for a response to issues raised in our meeting in May with the Bishops’ Commission for the Clergy.
    This meeting was held in response to our request after the 2015 for a discussion on specific topics, most of them arising from last year’s AGM.
  • A meeting of the Advisory Board will take place in Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone on 14 September at 2.00pm. Among the items to be discussed:

(a) Upcoming AGM – topic and structure

(b) Leadership of the ACP

(c) Press statements

(d) International networking

 

 


 
 
 
 


 

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Seamus Ahearne writes about the necessity of the ACP.
“I think the ACP exists not just to make noise or to be prophetic but to add ballast and communion to the collective in ministry. We are at breaking point as priests. We will fall apart if we stay apart.”
” the ACP is to reach out and call attention to the tiredness and to the ageing of the diocesan priests. What is the support structure for them? Creating clusters and adding on more work to do cannot be the answer. Creative and imaginative ideas are necessary (as Francis said). We cannot go on as we are.”
“The ACP isn’t just a vehicle for the journalists to use or an association of renegades. The ACP cannot be about the big noisy issues – nor can we forever be fighting big causes. It is the essentials of faith that are our interests and the ordinary issues of day to day life.”

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  1. Brendan Cafferty says:

    I would hope that much of the current leadership of ACP will stay on.They have been very good,maybe there are others to replace them but they will have a hard act to follow.
    The arrival of the association came at a very hard time for ACP and it took courage and perseverance to continue. It has borne fruit despite opposition at official level, but with the arrival of Pope Francis it shows itself to be in tune with a new reality

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