Tony Flannery

Fr. Tony Flannery hosts International Network of Church Reform Movements participative conference in Co. Limerick

An International Network of Church Reform Movements conference will take place next week, from Monday 13th April to Thursday 16th April, in the Radisson Blu Hotel in Limerick. Hosted by Fr. Tony Flannery, the participative conference will be the first time such a large gathering of leaders of the Church Reform Movement have met. It is also the first time such an event has been hosted in Ireland.

This evening I attended the celebration of the Lord’s Supper in Glenstal Abbey.  One thing in particular draws me there on this particular evening — the singing of the Pange Lingua. That brings me back to my early days, and gives me a warm glow, and a sense of the endurance of the Gospel message.

Chanting the Gospel does nothing for me, I’m afraid;  I find it a distraction rather than a help, in listening to the reading.

i recently came across this article, written in 2012 by an Australian theologian, David Timbs.  David is a former Redemptorist priest, and is one of the people who is coming to the conference I am hosting in Limerick in April for Church Reform leaders around the world.

Straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel

The recent spate of Vatican crack downs in various local churches is not going unnoticed anywhere across the Catholic world and beyond.