Yesterday’s meeting in Athlone, as part of the Synodal Path in the Irish Church, was by any standards extraordinary. I certainly never thought that I would live to be part of such a gathering, or to experience such a sense of change and new life and energy in our tired and battered Irish Catholic Church.
The purpose of the meeting was to report on the process that has been going on for some months in parishes, dioceses and among other interested groups.
