ROME RULE

Dermot Farrell

THE CATHOLIC Church’s much-publicised downsizing of dioceses in the west of Ireland was announced in a torrent of press releases from its Maynooth PR unit without consultation with either diocesan clergy or the non-ordained faithful. That’s the view of many lay workers, including Brendan Butler, the veteran lay reformer. They also claim that Pope Francis’s… Read more »

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