David Cooper is chair of our sister association in the United States. This is his response to Brendan Hoban’s Clarification on this site.

This piece was sent in by Jo as a response to Saoirse, who worried about people questioning the Magisterium of the Church. It came as a comment, but we believe it deserves to go up as a post.

This is an interesting piece from the recently-beatified Pope John Paul II, sent to us by one of our members.  It clearly shows that Brendan Hoban’s  call for dialogue in the Church (see ‘Clarification’ on this site) is very much in tune with the church teaching.

This article was published originally in History Ireland 3/4(1995)41-46 – it re-appears here with the editor’s permission. Thomas O’Loughlin is Professor of Historical Theology in the University of Nottingham. We thank him for sending us this article.

An article by Michael Harding in today’s (Tuesday’s) Irish Times, reflecting among other things on celibacy.  I wonder what my fellow priests think of it?

This piece was written by Brendan Hoban, on behalf of the Leadership Team of the ACP.  It is our effort to state clearly where we stand as an association on some issues that are important, and hopefully to clear up some confusion.

You’ve heard of the Ferns Report? You know about the Ryan, and Dublin, and Cloyne Reports? Do you know the most comprehensive of them all – the SAVI Report? Why has it been all but wiped out by the others? This article is in The Furrow of May 2012.

Pádraig McCarthy

This was sent to us by Mike Fallon, a priest in Scotland, who has been a member of the ACP since early on, and who attended the gathering in the Regency on May 7th.  It contains some interesting comments, both on the Irish and the Scottish Church