January 29, 2015
What are the urgent Reforms needed in the Church, and where does Pope Francis stands in relation to them? What of the growth of the Catholic Reform Movement around the world? What are it’s strengths and weaknesses? These are the questions Redemportist priest, Fr Tony Flannery will be addressing at the second event the ACI will be holding in Belfast on 21st February 2015.
January can be a long, and fairly dreary, month. In my years of ministry it was a nice break from the travel and intensity of mission preaching. More often than not it was also a time when I was preparing for the Galway Novena, which usually takes place in the first half of February. A few days ago I was talking to one of my Redemptorist colleagues who was going off for a badly needed break for a week.
In a recent article in The Tablet, the distinguished Augustinian theologian, Gabriel Daly, had the following paragraph:
“When the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith offends against justice and peace by identifying its own traditionalist opinions as ‘the immutable teaching of the Church’ and then accuses, and even punishes, fellow Catholics for not conforming to them, we have a situation that makes dissent and protest not only permissible, but a moral and theological duty.”
