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Vatican criticised for ‘slowness’ on church renewal
PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent
THE VATICAN has been criticised by the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin for its tardiness in responding to reports from apostolic visitation teams to Ireland, submitted last April.
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin emphasised he was not criticising Pope Benedict, but was encouraging a sense of urgency on the part of the Pope’s “collaborators”.
Speaking in Dublin yesterday, he said the pace of change in Irish religious culture was such that “the longer the delay in advancing the fruits of the apostolic visitation, the greater the danger of false expectations, and the greater the encouragement to those who prefer immobilism to reform, and the greater the threat to the effectiveness of this immense gift of the Holy Father to the Irish Church”.
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He was “impatient to learn about the path that the apostolic visitation will set out for renewal for the Irish Church so that our renewal will move forward decisively. At the same time, I am also becoming increasingly impatient at the slowness in the process, which began over a year ago. This is not a criticism of the Holy Father. It is an appeal to his collaborators.”
Seven apostolic visitation teams were in Ireland to investigate the church over the recent winter and spring months. They were in the four Catholic archdioceses, the Irish seminaries, and met male and female religious congregations before reporting to Rome by Easter.
PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent
THE VATICAN has been criticised by the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin for its tardiness in responding to reports from apostolic visitation teams to Ireland, submitted last April.
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin emphasised he was not criticising Pope Benedict, but was encouraging a sense of urgency on the part of the Pope’s “collaborators”.
Speaking in Dublin yesterday, he said the pace of change in Irish religious culture was such that “the longer the delay in advancing the fruits of the apostolic visitation, the greater the danger of false expectations, and the greater the encouragement to those who prefer immobilism to reform, and the greater the threat to the effectiveness of this immense gift of the Holy Father to the Irish Church”.
irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0603/1224298323584.html
He was “impatient to learn about the path that the apostolic visitation will set out for renewal for the Irish Church so that our renewal will move forward decisively. At the same time, I am also becoming increasingly impatient at the slowness in the process, which began over a year ago. This is not a criticism of the Holy Father. It is an appeal to his collaborators.”
Seven apostolic visitation teams were in Ireland to investigate the church over the recent winter and spring months. They were in the four Catholic archdioceses, the Irish seminaries, and met male and female religious congregations before reporting to Rome by Easter.