How can the last priests in Ireland survive the final years of their lives with comfort, esteem and affection?
49-year-old Fr Fintan Monahan will be installed as bishop at the Cathedral of Ss Peter and Paul in Ennis on Sunday 25 September.
“The problem in Ireland is clustering of parishes, leading to added pressure on aging priests, and formation of bigger, more impersonal, units.”
Radical proposals include ordination of women as deacons, inviting back men who left priesthood to marry and ordination of married men of good standing.
