The renewal and revival of the Church in Ireland needs to acknowledge the dying of the former model, writes Garry O’Sullivan Synodality and its listening process has been like following a prescribed cocktail of drugs. There’s all the ‘uppers’ of openness, listening, hopes and joys but then there’s the ‘downers’ of “we’ve been here before”,…
Exhausted priests are caught between a rock and a hard place
Archbishop of Dublin Dermot Farrell faces many challenges. Here the archbishop sits in the pro-cathedral on the day of his installation on February 2, 2021. Photo: John McElroy