History of ACI

ACI Goes Online

ACI Goes Online

by | Apr 17, 2013 | ,

In February 2013, following an extensive consultation process, a website designer and a separate website developer were appointed to set up the ACI website. The website went live on May 14th and hope to continue growing and developing. Members will soon be able to log...

Local Meetings, December 2012 to February 2013

by | Apr 17, 2013 |

Local Meetings In December 2012 supporters in Cork City, following on from the ACP Assembly, organised a very well attended local meeting in Bishopstown. In February 2013 a first ACI meeting in the South East was organised in Leighlinbridge, Co. Carlow. This meeting...

First ACI General Meeting, November 2012

First ACI General Meeting, November 2012

by | Apr 17, 2013 | ,

First ACI General Meeting The General Meeting in the Regency Hotel in Dublin coincided with the first AGM of the ACP. Approximately 300 people attended the ACI meeting and a very lively debate was conducted on the ‘Statement of Objectives’ and other matters directly...

Steering Group is Formed, Summer 2012

by | Apr 17, 2013 |

The Steering Group is Formed The Steering Group which set about the task in hand was comprised of a number of those who had organised the All Hallows meeting plus others who attended that meeting and volunteered to contribute to the work of the Steering Group. In...

May 2012 – All Hallows Meeting

by | Apr 17, 2013 | ,

May 2012 - All Hallows Meeting The preparations for the All Hallows meeting were made by lay members who assisted the ACP in the organisation of the event in the Regency Hotel. The All Hallows meeting on the 30th May was attended by about 175 people. After some...

Planning for the ACP ‘Assembly’

by | Apr 17, 2013 |

Planning for the ACP ‘Assembly’ Early in the New Year the Planning Group (consisting of four members of the ACP and four lay people) was established and the group met for the first time in February 2012 to commence their work – again Marianella was the venue. In the...

November 2011 – Marianella Meeting

by | Apr 17, 2013 |

November 2011 - Marianella Meeting In November 2011 the Association of Catholic Priests in Ireland [ACP], as part of the planning and preparation for their first national meeting (an event which subsequently became known as ‘Towards an Assembly of the Irish Church’)...

ACI’s Campaign for Lumen Gentium 37

The Promise of Synodality

What we have experienced of synodality so far gives ACI real hope that a longstanding structural injustice in the church may at last be acknowledged and overcome.

As all Irish bishops well know, the 'co-responsibility' they urge lay people to share - as numbers and energies of clergy decline - has been sabotaged time and again by canonical rules that deny representational authority and continuity to parish pastoral councils.  ACI's 2019 call for the immediate honouring of Lumen Gentium Article 37 becomes more urgent by the day and is supported by the following documents - also presented to the ICBC in October 2019.

The Common Priesthood of the People of God and the Renewal of the Church
It was Catholic parents and victims of clerical abuse who taught Catholic Bishops to prioritise the safeguarding of children in the church

Jesus as Model for the Common Priesthood of the People of God
It was for challenging religious hypocrisy and injustice that Jesus was accused and crucified. He is therefore a model for the common priesthood of the laity and for the challenging of injustice - in society and within the church.

A Suggested Strategy for the Recovery of the Irish and Western Catholic Church
Recovery of the church depends upon acknowledgment of the indispensable role of the common priesthood of the lay people of God and the explicit abandonment by bishops and clergy of paternalism and clericalism - the expectation of deference from lay people rather than honesty and integrity.

For the full story of ACI's campaign for the honouring of Article 37 of Lumen Gentium, click here.

Prayer

"Come Holy Spirit, Renew Your wonders in this our day, as by a new Pentecost. Grant to Your Church that, being of one mind and steadfast in prayer with Mary, the Mother of Jesus, and following the lead of blessed Peter, it may advance the reign of our Divine Saviour, the reign of truth and justice, the reign of love and peace. Amen."

Saint Pope John XXIII, 1962 - In preparation for Vatican Council II, 1962-65.

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