IRELAND
Irish Independent
By Sarah MacDonald
Monday February 04 2013
ARCHBISHOP Diarmuid Martin has held his first meeting with a group of outspoken priests who warned him that the Catholic hierarchy was in denial about the “bleak outlook” for male vocations to the priesthood.
Dr Martin (pictured) met with the Association of Catholic Priests in Ireland (ACP) in a ‘gloves-off’ meeting, in which he was told the Diocese of Killala was near breaking point with just four priests under 50.
At the meeting in Dublin, ACP spokesman Fr Brendan Hoban accused Rome of not appreciating the seriousness of the situation.
The archbishop is the most senior Irish prelate to hold talks with the group to date.
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