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Post by Séamus on May 17, 2021 5:14:36 GMT
Here is the list I decided upon in the end. .....etc.., 400 documentaries for RTE between 1962 and 1966 on the subjects of religion and social justice. Last person to interview Bishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador before his assassination. Wrote several well-regarded memoirs. It might be good to keep it going when one comes across a 'new' one, as a reminder that most Irish priests were far from the sinister or unlearned men they've often been typed as in recent times. In Australia it's been often remarked, perhaps even for decades now, that no more Irish bishops were likely to be chosen- not without reason as most churches in the country are full of immigrants, mostly from former Second- and Third-world nations. But last week an Irishman was unexpectedly chosen as one of two new auxiliaries for Melbourne (the biggest diocese, as Sydney was divided into three). Killarney-born Fr Martin Ashe was even educated by Mercy Sisters (given his generation he'll probably have less than a decade of vicar generaling to do before retirement age however) |
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Post by cato on May 17, 2021 10:54:05 GMT
I'm thinking of writing something about great (notable, celebrated, heroic, pioneering etc.) Irish priests. I want to concentrate on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Do any names spring to mind? I want to avoid the obvious like Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty, Fr. Theobald Matthew, etc. Far be it for me to critique your worthy endeavour but I suspect even the well known priests of former days are unknown to even many mass goers the bulk of whom are only catechised by a hostile anti clerical and anti religious secular culture. |
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Post by Maolsheachlann on May 17, 2021 12:10:38 GMT
I'm thinking of writing something about great (notable, celebrated, heroic, pioneering etc.) Irish priests. I want to concentrate on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Do any names spring to mind? I want to avoid the obvious like Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty, Fr. Theobald Matthew, etc. Far be it for me to critique your worthy endeavour but I suspect even the well known priests of former days are unknown to even many mass goers the bulk of whom are only catechised by a hostile anti clerical and anti religious secular culture. It's for Ireland's Own magazine, whose readers and older and more traditional. They often have articles on religious subjects. |
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Post by cato on May 17, 2021 22:33:11 GMT
It's for Ireland's Own magazine, whose readers and older and more traditional. They often have articles on religious subjects.[/quote]
Irelands Own is probably the most (small c) Conservative popular print publication in Ireland nowadays. Maybe the only one?
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Post by Maolsheachlann on May 18, 2021 11:02:28 GMT
It's for Ireland's Own magazine, whose readers and older and more traditional. They often have articles on religious subjects. Irelands Own is probably the most (small c) Conservative popular print publication in Ireland nowadays. Maybe the only one?[/quote] There's a similar magazine called Ireland's Eye which is published less frequently. I've only read it a couple of times. Ireland's Own certainly seems the only popular magazine with a conservative tone. |
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