ACP...Jimmy McPhillips defends Brian D’Arcy. (Main Forum)

by desi , Australia, Tuesday, May 01, 2012, 16:33 (388 days ago) @ desi

Instead of digging into the trenches and erecting defence barriers, we need to work together out of the Manual Jesus gave us, and accept the challenges of evangelisation in our times. The reality of a clerical Church that now seems so out of touch, out of ideas, and as some would suggest almost out of time, being the best channel for the Holy Spirit to lead us in modern times, is the subject of another urgently needed debate in our Church.

http://www.associationofcatholicpriests.ie/2012/04/jimmy-mcphillips-on-the-censoring-of...

A Comment:

I happened to be a Eucharistic minister in my parish this morning and as, I knew, it was Vocation Sunday I was surprised when our priest made no reference to the day.
Afterwards, in the sacristy, I gently mentioned it, and his response to me was “well after what the church had done to good men who have given their lives to working in the Vineyard, in conscience, I couldn’t ask anyone to consider joining now”.