The ACP is now six years in existence. During that time we have made many efforts to get some real dialogue with the Irish bishops. That culminated in a meeting last May at which the ACP delegation raised some serious and urgent issues about the Irish Church, and looked for a process of continual dialogue in order to meet the challenges facing us.
Below is the response:
Dear Brendan,
Thank you for your letter, dated August 18th.
Reform groups call on Catholic church ‘to stand against violence’ toward LGBT people
In a statement regarding LGBT rights in the Catholic church, a group of international Catholic reform groups called for the church “to stand against violence in all its forms — physical, emotional, spiritual and temporal — toward LGBT people.”
The statement came from the Network of Reform Movements, a group of international Catholic reform groups that gathered Oct.
International Catholic Priest Movements and Reform Groups Urge Church Progress on Key Issues during October meeting
From October 17 – 20, 2016, forty priests and lay persons from ten countries gathered in Chicago to develop strategies supporting reform in the Catholic Church. The group called for progress on: full equality for women in the Church; rights for LGBT Catholics; fundamental rights for all Catholics; and developing emerging models of parish ministry such as the Bishop Fritz Lobinger model.
