“We need lay people with a vision of the future, not confined to the little things of life.” Pope Francis, June 16th, 2016.
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Faith school: Desertmartin PS and Knocknagin PS to make NI history (BBC News)
The BBC are reporting that two small County Derry primary schools are set to make history by becoming the first jointly-run church school in Northern Ireland. Desertmartin PS and Knocknagin PS want to merge and be jointly managed by the Catholic Church, Church of...
Is the LGBT community still ‘them’ and not ‘us’?
Fr James Martin SJ asks whether US Catholic bishops should have expressed solidarity with the LGBT community in the wake of the Orlando tragedy.
Pope Francis enables removal of bishops for negligence on abuse
Will Pope Francis’ decision on errant bishops actually work? Marie Collins is hopeful but waiting to see.
Rome changing its tune on female ordination?
Women’s Ordination Worldwide hold their first permitted meeting in Rome, June 2016.
Minutes of ACI North Wicklow Meeting Wednesday 27th April 2016
Discussion this month included Pope Francis’ encyclical, ‘Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love) and the recent diocesan Synod in Limerick.
Pope Francis: ‘The Holy Spirit is not the property of the hierarchy’
The Tablet reports on Pope Francis most trenchant verbal assault yet on the hierarchy’s ‘stopping of the clock’ on the ‘hour of the laity’.
Minutes of ACI North Wicklow Meeting 30th March 2016
The Isolation of Priests …. It was noted that this problem wasn’t necessarily helped by the recommendation of the 2011 Apostolic Visitation that seminary buildings be exclusively for seminarians to ensure a well founded priestly identity.
Petition to reinstate Rev. Professor Hans Küng as an official Catholic theologian
Fr Küng is 88 years old and over his lifetime has made an extensive contribution to interpreting the significance and uniqueness of Christ.
SMA Summer School on “Living Laudato Si'” – Dromantine
Dromantine, Co. Down, is to host a summer school (June 25, 26) on the implications of Pope Francis’ 2015 Encyclical ‘Laudato Si’ for all of us.
‘Lay Mission Union of Ireland’ underway
Jim Farrell outlines the objectives and developing role of ‘Lay Mission Union’ in Ireland.
Bishop McKeown forecasts a ‘reaching out’ to censured Irish priests
Derry’s Bishop McKeown tells NCR that Irish bishops must ‘reach out’ to Fr Tony Flannery and other Irish priests censured by the Vatican.
Infallibility? Hans Küng appeals to Pope Francis
With his 88th birthday looming, the renowned Catholic theologian Hans Küng appeals to Pope Francis to remove what he sees as a serious roadblock to theology.
Minutes of ACI North Wicklow Meeting 24th February 2016
What strengthens my Faith?
Vatican Curia a ‘brick wall’ against bishop accountability: Marie Collins
‘Crunch time’ may be coming for Marie Collins’ continued membership of Pope Francis’ commission for the protection of minors.