Two weeks from today, October 17, what I believe is the culmination of five years of the Synodality Process comes to a conclusion at a day long meeting in Meath, attended by representatives of all the various groups and institutions in the Church. I was a delegate of the ACP at the two previous meetings, in Athlone and Kilkenny, but I have withdrawn from this one, and will be replaced by another ACP member.
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It is now almost fifteen years since I was forbidden to exercise priestly ministry, and I am on the verge of my eightieth birthday. The issues around which I was forbidden to minister were my writings on such matters as priesthood, women’s equality, and aspects of Catholic sexual teaching.
As a Redemptorist, I had spent all my years of ministry mainly in preaching. That year, in which I was in conflict with the Vatican and my Redemptorist authorities, was not easy, but was life changing.
