by soconaill | Nov 27, 2021 | News, Parish Development, WithSidebar
With nearly half of the 312 priests in Dublin’s Catholic Archdiocese now 70 or older, and just two students preparing for priesthood, Dublin archdiocese faces a personnel crisis in the short term – with so many priests set to retire by 2026. This stark...
by soconaill | Jun 25, 2021 | News, Parish Development
As Catholic Canon Law still reflects the top-down model of church that still too often lingers in Ireland, despite Vatican II, canon law will need to ‘catch up’ with the ‘inverted pyramid’ model of church required by synodality. This was...
by soconaill | Nov 13, 2020 | Articles, Books, Faith Formation, Family, Featured, Parish Development, Prayer
In the wake of good news from Dublin of the potential of family-led preparation of children for early sacraments we hear also that parents are especially committed to family and deeply appreciative of the welcome given to them by parishes in this new model. They are...
by soconaill | Nov 25, 2019 | News, Parish Development, Press Releases, Priority News, Reports, Uncategorized
ACI pilot study highlights serious concern about active lay involvement in parishes and calls on the Irish bishops to commission a countrywide survey to identify the key issues prior to holding a national synod to discern the way forward for the church. The...
by soconaill | Oct 1, 2019 | Education, Parish Development, Statements
The following ACI Documents were presented to the Irish Bishops Conference in time for their October 2019 meeting at Maynooth. We have been assured that they have been added to the documentation to be considered by the conference in the task of renewal, via the...
by soconaill | Nov 26, 2018 | Featured, Parish Development
On Sept 3rd 2018, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin asked each parish in the Archdiocese of Dublin to carry out a preliminary consultation on how to proceed with Church renewal after the World Meeting of Families in August. Some ACI members based in Dublin are reporting...
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