DUBLIN (IRELAND)
Irish Times
January 2, 2021
By Patsy McGarry
Dermot Farrell assures change will follow consultation with priests and parishioners
With half of Dublin’s priests over 70 and due to retire within the next five years and congregations ageing and declining, the Archbishop-elect Dermot Farrell of Dublin faces the job of managing decline.
These problems are now exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, not least financially, with income down by up to 80 per cent in Dublin during the first lockdown last spring and priests’ income cut by 25 per cent.
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