Past Events

ACI Dublin South Meeting  – Tuesday 16/09/14

ACI Dublin South Meeting – Tuesday 16/09/14

Minutes Introduction Welcome and updates read to group from Noel McCann re the 11 October Meeting on ‘Starting a National Conversation’, to be held in Regency Hotel Dublin. Julie will place notices up in Kimmage Manor Church. Teresa advised the group re. late...

ACI North Wicklow Branch Minutes – 10th Sep 2014

ACI North Wicklow – Next Meeting

Meeting of ACI North Wicklow - Tuesday 12th August 2014 at 7.30 p.m. in the Portacabin in St Fergal’s Church Grounds, Killarney Road, Bray The meeting will address: • What do Catholics really think of Church today? • How can we open the doors to dialogue? All welcome...

ACI North Wicklow Meeting Minutes July 1st

ACI North Wicklow Meeting Minutes July 1st

Minutes of Meeting Tuesday 1st July John Kelly welcomed us and reminded us that we had chosen for our July Meeting to a) study the ACI Aims and Objectives with a view to deciding individually on whether join ACI if we had not already done so and b) discuss the Vatican...

ACI North Wicklow Meeting Minutes July 1st

Next Meeting of ACI North Wicklow

Following the establishment of the North Wicklow Branch of ACI in June it is planned to have a further meeting on Tuesday July 1st at 7.30 p.m.in the Portacabin in St Fergal’s Church Grounds, Killarney Road, Bray. The meeting will address: 1) The Aims of ACI 2) The...

A Call to Action UK – 3rd Annual Conference

A Call to Action UK – 3rd Annual Conference

A Call To Action UK are a group of Catholics, some of whom are ordained, brought together by their love of Christ's church and anxiety about its future. Inspired by the Second Vatican Council, ACTA UK seeks to contribute fully to the life of our church so that we may...

Divorce, Remarriage and The Eucharist

Divorce, Remarriage and The Eucharist

Divorce, Remarriage and The Eucharist - the State of the Question: A lecture exploring the limits of God's Mercy. The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice presents Professor Ladislas Orsy SJ of Georgetown University at the third annual Michael Hurley Lecture Professor...

Fr William Stuart on Discipleship

Fr William Stuart on Discipleship

On Thursday 22nd May Howth Parish Reform and Renewal present Fr William Stuart speaking on the theme of 'Discipleship.' This is in a response to the call of Pope Francis to all lay people in our church. The event is in St. Columbanus Hall, Howth at 8pm, everyone...

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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