IRELAND
The Irish Times
PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent, and MARIE O’HALLORAN
MORE THAN 1,000 Catholic laity, priests and nuns called for dialogue in the Irish church at a day-long conference in Dublin yesterday.
Titled “Toward an Assembly of the Catholic Church”, the conference agreed such dialogue should “work towards establishing appropriate structures that would reflect the participation of all the baptised”.
It “should take place at parish, diocesan and national levels” and “address all issues facing our people at this time of crisis”.
The conference agreed on the need to recapture “as a matter of urgency” the reforming vision of the Second Vatican Council and called on all who were “concerned with the future of our church, including our church leaders, to participate in this dialogue.”
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