What Now for the Catholic Church? – RTÉ Radio 1 Leap of Faith programme

RTÉ Radio 1 – The Leap of Faith, Friday 26 Nov 2021

What now for the Catholic Church? Presenter Michael Comyn

In discussion are Bishop Brendan Leahy of Limerick, who is vice-chair of the Synodal Steering Committee, Ursula Halligan who is a journalist and coordinator of We are Church and Derek Scally, Berlin Correspondent for The Irish Times and author of The Best Catholics in the World.

Link to programme:

https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/the-leap-of-faith/programmes/2021/1126/1263364-the-leap-of-faith-friday-26-november-2021/

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The National Catholic Reporter carries a robust editorial on Cardinal Ouellet’s response to Archbishop Viganò. It challenges the role of those U.S. catholics “whose primary ambition, it seems, is to convince the rest of us that the Christian Gospel was actually promulgated to justify the most extreme expressions of American-style capitalism.”
It concludes “The work ahead will require more than bluster and misappropriated slogans. It will require accessing the deepest levels of our sacramental tradition. It will require the imposition of unprecedented accountability from bishops. It will also require bishops with the will to confront the toughest questions about how the clerical culture arrived at this point.”

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  1. Joe O'Leary says:

    RTÉ Radio 1 Leap of Faith programme…

    Back then, as junior chaplain in UCC, I did not realize to what extent a new Cork was being born. The oppressive drabness and insidious taboos they were shaking off seemed to form the very element of the church, whose decline was just setting in. The church would have benefited hugely from engaging with these young activists and visionaries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmz4K2z7dY&t=424s

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