Urgent call to Irish Bishops Conference – co-responsibility now!
Press Releases
ACI Press Release: Pilot Study Highlights lack of Lay Leadership in Parishes
A 2019 ACI Pilot Study of Lay Co-Responsibility in Irish parishes raises serious concern and calls for all-Ireland survey
ACI calls Irish Bishops to Honour Lumen Gentium #37 at October 2019 Conference
With the priestly manpower crisis building in Ireland, Irish Bishops need to attend to Article 37 of Lumen Gentium when they meet on October 1st, 2019
ACI Press Release: Pope Francis needs to reveal combat plan
ACI calls on Pope Francis to accept Vatican responsibility for the failures of so many bishops, and to respond to Cardinal O’Malley’s call for strong action.
ACI supports Marie Collins’s call to Pope Francis to act
ACI Press Release supports Marie Collins in her call to Pope Francis to act decisively to resolve the global clerical abuse crisis.
PRESS RELEASE – ‘Future Families: Challenges for Faith and Society’
14th April, 2018 – All are invited to discuss the challenges to the varying configurations of family today – and the role of faith in meeting those.
Missal Wording
The ACI welcomes the decision by Pope Francis to return the authority for liturgical translations to bishops and urges the Irish bishops to move quickly to restore the pre-2011 vernacular Mass liturgy.
Press Release from ACI on eve of Bishops’ Ad Limina visit to Rome
The ACI expresses deep disappointment that the Irish Catholic Bishops Conference (ICBC) has been unable to agree to bring proposals on ending the celibacy requirement for priestly ministry in Ireland to Pope Francis for their Ad Limina visit to Rome
Family Synod without married Catholics will lack authority: ACI
Without significant input from married Catholics the upcoming synod in Rome will lack authority. Our full press release can be accessed here.
ACI Has Been Officially Launched! Saturday June 1st 2013
Press Statement: Association of Catholics in Ireland Formally Launched. The Association of Catholics in Ireland [ACI], a new group for Irish Catholics committed to reform and renewal in the Church, was formally launched to-day in the Clarion Hotel, Liffey Valley. The...