Priests call on hierarchy to help save Church from ‘effective collapse’

IRELAND
RTE News

The Association of Catholic Priests has called for all groups within the Irish church to join in planning how to save it from “effective collapse” in 20 years’ time.

The ACP has asked the hierarchy to join priests and lay-people to discuss the future of the church in light of the decline in the number of priests.

It has called for the reality of the situation to be communicated to Rome and for space to be created at parish, diocesan and national level for discussion of the crisis.

Primate of All Ireland Seán Brady has been told that clerical gatherings are often characterised by dejection, depression and sometimes, almost despair.

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