Past Events

ACI Launch: June 1st 2013

ACI Launch: June 1st 2013

 ACI's Official Launch on Saturday 1st June 2013 from 10am to 4pm in the Clarion Hotel, Liffey Valley.  The meeting, an open and participative space,  focused on how this organisation can support the role of the laity in the future of our Church. Attendees engaged in...

First ACI General Meeting, November 2012

First ACI General Meeting, November 2012

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...

May 2012 – All Hallows Meeting

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...

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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