IRELAND
The Irish Times
PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent
FOLLOWING THE Toward an Assembly of the Catholic Church gathering in Dublin’s Regency Hotel three weeks ago, which was attended by over 1,000 Catholic laity, priests and nuns calling for dialogue in the Irish church, two further events are planned for this coming week.
A meeting will take place in All Hallows College, Dublin at 8pm on Wednesday, May 30th. It will discuss the formation of an umbrella group to represent laity interested in supporting reform and renewal in the church.
“We feel that an umbrella organisation will bring greater focus and cohesion to the ‘lay voice’ calling for dialogue,” said Noel McCann, one of the organisers of Wednesday’s meeting.
“Our aim would be to establish the organisation in the mainstream, and with the moral authority coming from a significant membership [so that it can] become relevant to the debate on the future reform and renewal of our church,” he said.
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