IRELAND
Irish Examiner
By Claire O’Sullivan
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Communities will be involved in any plans to radically reorganise the amount of dioceses in this country, according to the summary report presented by the Vatican team who visited the country last year.
One church source yesterday warned that “amalgamation had the potential to be very emotive as priests and lay people identified with the existing diocese.”
They pointed to historic amalgamations which were “fraught affairs”.
“It would also involve a lot of legal wrangling, such as for one, whether the former dioceses would still be considered a registered charity,” he said.
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