It is not a surprise the number of active priests has been dropping drastically in the past decades. This issue can be seen in every diocese throughout the country, and a five-minute talk with any bishop or priest about the matter would leave you astonished.
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Michael Seán Winters reports in NCR Online Link to article: https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-voices/most-defining-characteristic-francis-papacy-synodality?utm_source=NCR+List&utm_campaign=643eb4a3d7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_03_03_09_32&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6981ecb02e-643eb4a3d7-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D March 6, 2023 In assessing the pontificate of Francis at the 10-year mark, we have looked at his self-understanding…
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Loyola University to host meeting between pope and students By Michelle Martin | Staff Writer Pope Francis will join university students from across the Western Hemisphere in a virtual event hosted…
Updated with a link to an interview of Tony Flannery by Monica Morley on Mid West Radio’s Faith Alive programme.
Tony Flannery posted a very interesting start of the year reflection on his personal blog.
It is nothing less than scandalous that Tony still is “withdrawn” from ministry and that this situation is allowed to continue by those in authority.
“I am inclined to believe that if there is to be any change in my situation it will happen this year. If not, then I will have to accept that things will remain as they are for whatever amount of life I have left. I can cope, I think, with not ministering as a priest any more. At my age I wouldn’t be doing much anyway. But living within an institution that acts in such a cavalier and unjust fashion, and is quite happy to sit with that injustice and do nothing about it, will be the difficult part.”
Joe O Leary writes on Holy Week.
“At the heart of our faith lies the death of Christ, which is not a mere sudden event of long ago but a vast space that contains all human experience of suffering and death, guilt and despair. Descending into that chasm in meditation, we find that it is a gracious place, throbbing with the promise of resurrection.”
This article was written for The Irish Mail on Sunday by Bishop Paul Dempsey, Bishop of Achonry. It is reprinted with his kind permission. The Diocese of Achonry has twenty-three…
The Documentary The Last Priests is being shown again on RTE 1 television on Sunday 1st September in the evening at 11.05 pm.
And The Last Nuns on Sunday 8th, also at 11.05pm
Thank you, Soline and Liamy.