Past Events

In Search of a New Model of Church

In Search of a New Model of Church

by | Jan 14, 2014 |

Howth Parish Reform and Renewal Group invite you to attend a meeting entitled 'In Search of a New Model of Church.' It will be on Monday, January 20th at 8pm in St. Columbanus Hall, Hoth, Co. Dublin. See below for more details...

Nollaig na mBan (Women’s Christmas)

Nollaig na mBan (Women’s Christmas)

by | Jan 4, 2014 |

Celebrating Nollaig na mBan on Sunday 5th January 3-5pm Come and join Limerick members of ACI in the Hunt Museum, Limerick, for a miscellany of music, story, song and dance in celebration of women and Nollaig na mBan (Women’s Christmas). Featured contributors Nóirín...

Thomas Merton: a monk for all seasons

Thomas Merton: a monk for all seasons

by | Jan 2, 2014 |

Prof. Michael W. Higgins, an internationally-renowned author and expert on the life of the writer and mystic Thomas Merton, will give a lecture entitled 'A Monk for All Seasons' on Monday January 13th next at Avila Carmelite Centre, Donnybrook, Dublin 4. Admission...

Kimmage Manor Meeting: Tues 26th November 2013

Kimmage Manor Meeting: Tues 26th November 2013

by | Nov 14, 2013 |

A group of people from the Dublin South area are meeting in Kimmage Manor Parish Hall off Whitehall Road, Dublin 12 on Tuesday November 26 from 8-9.30pm. It will be an  opportunity for people concerned about the Church to gather and explore how their voice  can be...

News from ACI Marianella Meeting 21st Sept 2013

News from ACI Marianella Meeting 21st Sept 2013

by | Oct 10, 2013 |

An ACI Meeting: (Building on June 1st) Thirty people attended a meeting for ACI volunteers in Marianella on Sept 21st 2013 to look at areas of action for ACI they can take a lead on over the coming months. Building on the ideas generated form at the ACI  launch on...

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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